The Chinese Nail Murders

Name: The Chinese Nail Murders
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Robert van Gulik
ISBN: 9780226848631

Robert van Gulik

15/11/1977
University Of Chicago Press

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Chinese Nail Murders par Robert van Gulik

Résumé

Judge Dee and his four helpers solve the murders of an honored merchant, a kindly boxing master, and a paper merchant's wife, whose corpse has no head. They succeed in spite of strong pressure on Judge Dee from higher-ups to bring his investigation, which has temporarily generated unrest among the populace, rapidly to an end or face dismissal or serious punishment. The case of the headless corpse is based on a thirteenth-century Chinese casebook; the nail murder, one of the most famous motifs in Chinese crime literature, is first described in the same text.