Poets And Murder
by van Gulik, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
A Chinese Detective Story. (New York: Charles Scribners Sons: Copyright 1968) A-2.72 [C] SBN 684-12560-7, Quarter cloth boards (that is, hard covers) pp. x, 174. With eight illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style. Pictorial birds eye view on the endpapers. Front of jacket says New Judge Dee Mysteries. About fine copy in like dust-jacket.
Synopsis
Poets and Murder is a detective novel 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 magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700. The book features eight illustrations by the author along with a detailed layout of the residence where the action takes place. Poets and Murder was the last Judge Dee novels written by Robert van Gulik.
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Details
- Bookseller
- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 147794
- Title
- Poets And Murder
- Author
- van Gulik, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- crime fiction
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About the Seller
exPB
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Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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