Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An) An Authentic 18th-Century Chinese Detective Novel – Robert van Gulik Free Audiobook

Written by Robert van Gulik
Read by Mark Bramhall, Stefan Rudnicki, Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
Audiobook
Release date: 06-01-09
Language: English
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary

Long before Western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese had developed a long tradition of literary works that chronicled the cases of important district magistrates. One of the most celebrated of these was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century.
This book, written anonymously in the 18th century, interweaves three of Judge Dee’s most baffling cases: a double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of a bride on her wedding night, and the suspicious death of a shop keeper with a beautiful wife.

The crimes take him up and down the great silk routes, into ancient graveyards where he consults the spirits of the dead, and through all levels of society, leading him to some brilliant detective work.