文档介绍：The Chinese Gold Murders
A Judge Dee Detective Story
ROBERT VAN GULIK
with ten plates drawn by the author in Chinese style
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Librarv of Congress Cata loging-in-Publication Data
Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967.
The Chinese gold murders: a Judge Dee detective story / by Robert van Gulîk; with ten plates drawn by the
author in Chinese Style - l st Perenriial ed.
ISBN 0-06-072867-1
1. Di, Renjie, 629-700--Fiction. 2. China-Historv-Tang dynasty, 618-907-Fiction. 3. Judges-Fiction. I. Title.
2004
823'.914-dc22
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PREFACE
THE CHINESE GOLD MURDERS takes us back to the beginning of Judge
Dee's career when, thirty-three years of age, he had been appointed to his first