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Series Judge Dee Pages 174 Followed by Necklace and Calabash | 4/5 Goodreads Media type Print Originally published 1967 Preceded by The Phantom of the Temple Page count 174 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Gong'an fiction, Mystery, Detective fiction, Chinese crime fiction Similar Works by Robert van Gulik, Gong'an fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Judge Dee at Work is a collection of gong'an detective short stories written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a county magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.
Contents
The book features eight illustrations by the author.
The book also has a postscript where the author places all the novels and stories into a coherent timeline for his semi-fictional character.
Overview
Judge Dee, a magistrate in Imperial China is a crime solver, a detective. In these stories Judge Dee solves a series of un-related crimes from different times in his career. There is no over-all narrative to these stories.
List of Stories
References
Judge Dee at Work Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA