by Robert van Gulik · ISBN 9782264005960
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«Trafic d'or sous les T'ang» is the historical crime novel by Robert van Gulik, published by 10/18 in paperback (257 pages, in French).
In the year 663, during the Tang dynasty, Judge Ti Jen-Tsie takes up his first post as magistrate of Peng-lai, a Chinese port reputed to be haunted by ghosts. There he must solve the mysterious poisoning of his predecessor, the disappearance of the court's first clerk and of the wife of a wealthy shipowner, amid rumours of a man-tiger.
French translation by Roger Guerbet of the English original «The Chinese Gold Murders» (1959). Edition from the Grands Détectives collection.
For fans of classic mystery fiction and stories set in medieval 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.
