The Lacquer Screen, Judge Dee Mystery 9 - Robert Van Gulik
Category: Detective
Narrator: Unknown
Tags: Detective, Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults
Series: Judge Dee Mystery, Book 9 (publication order) Files: MP3, ***If you like the download, please stick around and SEED so that many others will get to enjoy it too :D *** _______________________________________________, Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dees lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honourable than the magistrate., 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
