Murder in Canton: a Chinese detective story ... with fifteen illustrations drawn

by the author in Chinese style by Robert Van Gulik

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966 . First American edition, 8vo, pp. 8 , 207, 1 ; pictorial endpapers, fine copy in a dust jacket with a faded spine. This fifth novel of the New Series I wrote in Kuala Lumpur, winter 1961– spring 1962. Since I meant this to be really the last Judge Dee novel, I cast about for an entirely new setting and a new kind of plot. I decided to take, for the first time, an actual Chinese city as the scene of action

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