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The Monkey And The Tiger. ROBERT VAN GULIK

The Monkey And The Tiger.

ROBERT VAN GULIK

Other works by ROBERT VAN GULIK

Publication: Heinemann, 1965, London

First edition. Fine in dust jacket, lightly sunned on the spine. A Judge Dee mystery containing two shorter stories: The Morning of the Monkey and The Evening of the Tiger. In the first story, while watching a troop of monkeys playing in a garden, Judge Dee notices that one of the monkeys drops an expensive blood-encrusted emerald ring. When Judge Dee stumbles over a mutilated body hidden in his garden he decides to find out who is responsible. With the help of his assistant Tao Gan, Dee set out to investigate a nest of pawnbrokers, thieves and vagabonds. In the second story Judge Dee, while taking refuge in an isolated country house, finds that the family is mourning the death of a young girl, the apparent victim of a heart attack. The theft of forty bars of gold, however, leads Judge Dee to think there is more to the story. Besieged by bandits, ghosts and superstitious hosts who believe that their troubles are foretold by the almanac, Dee sets out to solve the mystery.

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