Китайски загадки: Ди Гунан
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9799545280701 (9545280700)
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: Труд
Pages no: 224
Edition language: Bulgarian
Series: Judge Dee (Chronological order) (#1)
In this book, Judge Dee handles three cases. In the first, two traveling silk merchants stay at a hostel and are later found murdered. The hostel owner is accused of robbing and killing them, although it's immediately clear to Judge Dee that there's more to the case than that. In the second, Judge D...
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Okay, I admit it. My reading material tends to be not only Euro-centric, but Anglo-centric. While I went through a phase of absorbing quite a bit of European folklore, I have never really read much Asian mythology or ancient texts. That's going to change. I recently read Wilkie Collins' Moonston...
Not my favorite of the Judge Dee books, but still good.
6 years ago
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