The Chinese Lake Murders Author:Robert van Gulik A courtesan performs a bewitching dance aboard a flower boat and minutes later is discovered drowned in the waters of a haunted lake-- — A bride dies on her wedding night and incredibly disappears from her sealed and guarded casket-- — And soon all the town of Han-yuan murmurs with the whisper of a dreaded, forbidden name--WHITE LOTUS. — Judge Dee ... more »investigate the strange happenings at Han-yuan that begin with a guilty love and lead to a treasonous plot against the Mandate to Heaven!« less