by Robert van Gulik · University Of Chicago Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780226848631
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«The Chinese Nail Murders» is the mystery novel by Robert van Gulik, published by University of Chicago Press in paperback (220 pages, in English).
The novel places Judge Dee in the border district of Pei-chow in the year 676, where he investigates the theft of some jewels, the disappearance of a young woman, and the murder of a woman whose body appears decapitated. The three cases bear a strange relation to the clues of a game of the period called the Seven Boards.
Fifteenth novel in the Judge Dee series in chronological order. The work was originally published in 1961; this edition is from 1977.
For readers of historical crime fiction and admirers of the setting in imperial China.
Robert Hans van Gulik was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.
