The Haunted Monastery

✍ Scribed by Gulik, Robert van

• Book ID: 108794413
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 743 KB
• Series: Judge Dee 7
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780226849089

✦ Synopsis

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Judge Dee and his entourage, seeking refuge from a mountain storm, become trapped in a Taoist monastery, where the Abbott Jade mysteriously dies after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge calls it murder. Recalling the allegedly accidental deaths of three young women in the same monastery, Judge Dee seeks clues in the eyes of a cat to solve cases of impersonation and murder. A painting by one of the victims reveals the truth about the killings, propelling the judge on a quest for justice and revenge. "Entertaining, instructive, and impressive."Times Literary Supplement