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Judge Dee at Work (Judge Dee (Chronological order) #4)
The eight short stories in Judge Dee at Work cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the T’ang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army to the murder of a lonely poet in his garden pavilion, the cases here are among the most memorable in the Judge Dee series.
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Published
July 15th 2010
by University of Chicago Press
(first published 1967)
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13 JUL 2012 - So, I downloaded the ebook and read 4 of these stories straight through. The writing is wonderful and the stories are engaging. I honestly did not guess the mystery until the very end when it was revealed to me. These are some of the best written short story mysteries I have read in ages. Judge Dee is a pretty neat guy.
13 JUL 2012 - So, I downloaded the ebook and read 4 of these stories straight through. The writing is wonderful and the stories are engaging. I honestly did not guess the mystery until the very end when it was revealed to me. These are some of the best written short story mysteries I have read in ages. Judge Dee is a pretty neat guy.
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Nov 28, 2008
Terence
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Very late-night TV
Back in the day, before the infomercial conquered late night TV, independent stations (yes, such creatures existed before the 1996 Telecom Act) aired movies, some good, most bad, and sometimes I would stay up all night watching them. It was on one of these marathons that I first saw Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (based on van Gulik's The Haunted Monastery) with Khigh Dhiegh (Wo Fat, the crimelord from "Hawaii 5-O", and the diabolical psychiatrist who hypnotizes Laurence Harvey and Frank Si...more
Aug 28, 2011
Lisa (Harmonybites)
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Lovers of Historical Mysteries Interested in China
This is an enjoyable book, but I wouldn't recommend it as an introduction to van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries. Van Gulik was raised in East Asia from early childhood and tutored in Mandarin from an early age. He served throughout Asia in the Dutch Diplomatic service and married a Chinese woman, so few people would be so ideally positioned to write works based on Chinese culture for Western audiences. As Van Gulik explains in his afterwards, Judge Dee is a real historical person who lived from A.D...more
I think I prefer short stories when it comes to mysteries: they are concise and to the point. And despite their briefness, every one of them tells us something about the main character. In this, Robert Van Gulik's stories are very similar to Arthur Conan Doyle's. For example, in "He Came with the Rain", we find out how Dee married his third wife. In "The Red Tape Murders", we see what a pedant Dee is and how little patience he has with disorderly, stupid people. In "Murder on New Year's Eve", it...more
I enjoyed "meeting" Judge Dee years ago in a collection of "historical sleuth" stories and enjoyed meeting up with him again in van Gulik's collection of short stories.
What I most appreciate about the author is how he takes a figure of antiquity and shares the society of that time (without apology, though many aspects of 7th C. China might not "suit" contemporary readers) and makes it accessible.
Oddly enough, I am not always a mystery fan. Historical mysteries? Just the ticket.
If you like hist...more
What I most appreciate about the author is how he takes a figure of antiquity and shares the society of that time (without apology, though many aspects of 7th C. China might not "suit" contemporary readers) and makes it accessible.
Oddly enough, I am not always a mystery fan. Historical mysteries? Just the ticket.
If you like hist...more
I've read most of the books in the Judge Dee series, and this is the first time that I've realized that Sherlock Holmes has absolutely nothing on Judge Dee! In fact, if you were to put both of these men on a case, I'd bet on Judge Dee solving it first, less arrogantly, and more neatly than Holmes.
Truth be told, however, I'm not really a big fan of short stories, and Judge Dee at Work is a collection of short mystery stories full of very subtle clues that are collected and pieced together by our...more
Truth be told, however, I'm not really a big fan of short stories, and Judge Dee at Work is a collection of short mystery stories full of very subtle clues that are collected and pieced together by our...more
I still enjoy Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries the most of those I have read which are set in China. What a scholar he was and what an amusing sense of humor. I chuckle when I see his line drawings. A librarian told me his tome on the sexual mores of ancient China disappeared from one of the libraries in Ann Arbor. What a shame.
For modern day mysteries set in China, my favorite author is Qiu Xiaolong.
For modern day mysteries set in China, my favorite author is Qiu Xiaolong.
A series of short stories that interweave cases at various times and places between the other novels.
Nice to see how intense and interesting each story is, and how they are solved by Dee. It is also interesting since we get a glimpse at also more of the military and their customs as well.
Nice to see how intense and interesting each story is, and how they are solved by Dee. It is also interesting since we get a glimpse at also more of the military and their customs as well.
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
trailer here
All action, storyline shy of visible.
trailer here
All action, storyline shy of visible.
Esence "tiovek" jakožto osmero čtivých jednohubkových povídek napříč kariérou soudce Ti. Nic více a nic méně; ono ostatně ke spokojenosti více ani netřeba.
8 short stories from Dee's career. A quick read. This volume also has a excellent chronology of the Judge's career keyed to van Gulik's stories.
Des petites histoires policières astucieuses qui donnent l'occasion de voyager dans la Chine du 1er siècle après J.C.
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Robert Hans van Gulik was a Dutch diplomat best know for his Judge Dee stories. His first published book, The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, was a translation of an eighteenth-century Chinese murder mystery by an unknown author; he went on to write new mysteries for Judge Dee, a character based on a historical figure from the seventh century. He also wrote academic books, mostly on Chinese history...more
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