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The Phantom of the Temple: A Judge Dee Mystery
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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 immortalized by Robert van Gulik in his electrifying mysteries.



In The Phantom of the Temple, three separate puzzles—the disappearance of a wealthy merchant's daughter, twenty missing bars of gold, and a decapitated corpse—are pieced together by the clever judge to solve three murders and one complex, gruesome plot.


"Judge Dee belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes. I assure you it is a compliment not given frivolously."—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times


Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century.
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Robert van Gulik. (2010). The Phantom of the Temple: A Judge Dee Mystery. University of Chicago Press.

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"Judge Dee belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes. I assure you it is a compliment not given frivolously."—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
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Judge Dee shows a birthday present
Ma Joong meets an old girl friend
The consort of a god
The birthday dinner
Ma Joong makes a delivery
The Third Lady receives Mrs. Woo
A meeting late at night
Judge Dee discusses seven cards
Prefect Woo and the Abbess before Judge Dee
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