The Red Pavilion: A Judge Dee Mystery
by Robert Van Gulik
Fiction > Mystery & Detective
Tang dynasty, 618-907
Judges
Dee Jen-Djieh (Fictitious character)
China
A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution.
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