The Emperor's Pearl by Robert van Gulik

192 pages first pub 1963 (editions)

fiction crime historical mystery adventurous mysterious fast-paced
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It all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young woman turns up in a deserted country mansion.  There, Judge Dee—tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, an...

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