The Red Pavilion.

ROBERT VAN GULIK

Publication: Heinemann, 1964, London

First U.K. edition. Fine in dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends. A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution.

Inventory Number: 34203