The Chinese Gold Murders - Robert Van Gulik Gerald Murnane angels or demons

angels or demons

An exhaustive investigation of the case of Gef

This distinctly upper-class artist is pretty well the first English novelist to have listened to working-class speech and to have understood its overtones and undertones

blind to what was beautiful right before her own eyes

The Chinese Gold Murders - Robert Van Gulik Gerald Murnane angels or demonsThe Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik 208 page paperback published in 2024 in the Penguin Modern Classics Crime & Espionage Series *** Judge Dee is about to step into the shoes of a dead man Most people would refuse the job of Magistrate at the lonely port town of Peng lai especially as the last occupant of the post has been found poisoned in his library, his papers missing. But Judge Dee is not most men. He arrives ready to get to the truth,