The Chinese bell murders ; with an introd. by Donald F. Lach

<i>The Chinese Bell Murders</i> is one of a series of Judge Dee detective novels written in the 1950s by Robert van Gulik (1910-67), a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. Van Gulik drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century. (back cover copy)