Larger	The Chinese Bell Murders (Judge Dee Mysteries) Author: Robert van Gulik
	Book Information Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 6 ISBN-13: 9780226848624 - ISBN-10: 0226848620 Publication Date: 11/15/1977 Pages: 298 Book Reviews

The Chinese Bell Murders describes the Judge's exploits in the tribunal of Poo-yang early in his career. He has one case left over from his predecessor--the brutal rape-murder of Pure Jade, the daughter of Butcher Hsai who lived on Half Moon Street. Her lover has been accused and is on the verge of being convicted, but Judge Dee senses that all is not right and sets out with his lieutenants to find the real murderer.

"So scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner yet so nicely equipped with everything to satisfy the modern reader."--New York Times

Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century.