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Judge Dee at Work

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Series
  
Judge Dee

Pages
  
174

Author
  
Robert van Gulik

Followed by
  
Necklace and Calabash

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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

  • The Red Tape Murder - set in the year 663 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Peng-lai.
  • The Murder on the Lotus Pond - set in the year 666 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Han-yuan.
  • The Two Beggars - set in the year 668 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Poo-yang.
  • The Wrong Sword - set in the year 668 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Poo-yang.
  • The Coffins of the Emperor - set in the year 670 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Lan-fang.
  • Murder on New Year's Eve - set in the year 670 when Judge Dee was a magistrate of Lan-fang.

    • References

    Judge Dee at Work Wikipedia
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