The Chinese Nail Murders (Judge Dee (Chronological order) #15)

Robert van Gulik


Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
4.08 · 12 ratings · 220 pages · Published: 1961

The Chinese Nail Murders by Robert van Gulik
A.D. 676

In the fifth installment of Robert Van Gulik's ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow - a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire. It is here that he is faced with three strange and disturbing crimes: the theft of precious jewels, the disappearance of a girl in love, and the fiendish murder involving the nude, headless body of a woman. And even more curious, the crimes seem to be linked together by clues from a popular game of the period, the Seven Board.

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