by Tran-Nhut · Picquier Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782877308014
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«La poudre noire de Maître Hou» is the historical crime novel by Tran-Nhut, published by Picquier Poche in paperback (374 pages, in French).
In 17th-century Vietnam, the mandarin Tân investigates in Ha Long Bay corpses that seem to refuse to die and plundered cemeteries. With the scholar Dinh, he must solve a murder linked to Taoist gunpowders, ancient rites and the arrival of the Jesuit missions, guided by a premonitory message from a beloved woman.
Third instalment of the series «Les enquêtes du mandarin Tân». The novel was originally published in 2001.
For readers of historical crime fiction interested in 17th-century Vietnam and mysteries with a cultural atmosphere.
