Robert Van Gulik: 48 books

Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following...

Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following...

« Le juge Ti, c'est moi », aurait dit Van Gulik. Dans ce roman écrit en 1964 et qui se déroule à Amsterdam, il nous invite à rencontrer une autre facette de son personnage, à travers la personnalité de son héros Johann Hendricks, un ancien fonctionnaire colonial hollandais rapatrié après...

Judge Dee presided over his imperial Chinese court with a unique brand of Confucian justice. A near mythic figure in China, he distinguished himself as a tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger. Long after his death, accounts of his exploits were celebrated in Chinese folklore, and later...

Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably...

Retrouvez toutes les affaires débrouillées par le juge Ti chez 12-21, l'éditeur numérique !En 668, durant un séjour chez son ami le magistrat Lo dans le district de Chin-Houa, le désormais célèbre juge Ti va aider celui-ci à résoudre plusieurs affaires de meurtre : l'assassinat du jeune...

Retrouvez toutes les affaires débrouillées par le juge Ti chez 12-21, l'éditeur numérique !" Van Gulik, qui était sinologue, s'est inspiré pour camper son héros d'un personnage réel, Ti Jen-tsie, lequel a vécu entre 630 et 700 de notre ère. Naturellement, l'histoire ici est inventée de...

It all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young woman turns up in a deserted country mansion.  There, Judge Dee—tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger—steps in to investigate the murders...

Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor’s garden maze and the answers to three interwoven mysteries. The Chinese Maze Murders represents Robert van Gulik’s...

Judge Dee—Confucian Imperial magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger, based on a famous statesman—was Dutch diplomat and Chinese cultural historian Robert van Gulik’s (1910–67) lasting invention. A welcome addition to the elite canon of fictional detectives, the Judge steps in to investigate...

Judge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath the placid surface of academic life. A mild-mannered student is rumored to have been slain by a fox-demon, while a young dancer meets her death as she...

Retrouvez toutes les affaires débrouillées par le juge Ti chez 12-21, l'éditeur numérique !Loin de Pou-Yang, le juge Ti pensait prendre quelque repos dans la douce Ville-du-Bord-de-l'Eau, mais le magistrat est entraîné dans une cascade d'imprévus fâcheux : un meurtre passionnel, le vol d'un...

Retrouvez toutes les affaires résolues par le juge Ti chez 12-21, l'éditeur numérique !Traduites d'un ouvrage chinois du XVIIIe siècle, les Trois affaires criminelles résolues par le juge Ti ont introduit en Occident le célèbre magistrat à la robe verte. Crimes crapuleux chez les marchands...

Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague- and drought-ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansion. In The Willow Pattern, the...