by Robert van Gulik, Anne Krief · Editions 10/18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264007292
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«Le Fantôme du temple» is the mystery novel by Robert van Gulik, published by Editions 10/18 in paperback (283 pages, in French).
Judge Dee, newly posted to Lan-fang, expects to celebrate his wife's anniversary with a game of mahjong, but three matters demand his attention: a decapitated corpse, ingots stolen from the imperial treasury, and a note written in blood inside an ebony chest. The clues lead to an abandoned temple and a ghostly figure.
Volume 14 of the Judge Dee series in chronological order. French translation by Anne Krief; the English original, «The Phantom of the Temple», appeared in 1966. This French edition is from 1985.
For readers of classic mystery, historical fiction, and followers of the Judge Dee series set in imperial China.
Robert Hans van Gulik was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.
