The Willow Pattern Author:Robert van Gulik "The Black Death threatened the whole Tang Dynasty, savaging the ancient capital, wiping away the old order. With it came the evil hooded scavengers. to loot and plunder the living, the dying and the dead. The disease also brings Judge Dee face to face with a rash of vindictive murders as contagious as the plague itself. The key to the crimes li... more »es among the shards of a shatterd willow pattern vase."« less