Autor powieści historyczno-detektywistycznych, sinolog i dyplomata. W połowie lat 30. XX wieku rozpoczął pracę dyplomaty w Japonii, następnie pracował także w Chinach, Indiach, Libanie oraz Malezji. Autor wielu prac naukowych oraz szesnastu powieści detektywistycznych. Na motywach utworów przygotował także cykl komiksów udostępnionych czytelnikom w prasie holenderskiej.
43 Ebooks by Robert van Gulik
Robert van Gulik: Murder in Ancient China
Judge Dee-Confucian Imperial magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger, based on a famous statesman-was Dutch diplomat and Chinese cultural historian Robert van Gulik’s (1910-67) lasting invention. …
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€1.26
Robert van Gulik: Poets and Murder
Judge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath the placid surface of academic life. A mild-mannere …
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€19.33
Robert van Gulik: Phantom of the Temple
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 a …
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€20.52
Robert van Gulik: Judge Dee at Work
The eight short stories in Judge Dee at Work cover a decade during which the judge served in four different provinces of the T ang Empire. From the suspected treason of a general in the Chinese army …
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€19.19
Robert van Gulik: Lacquer Screen
Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The mag …
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€23.03
Robert van Gulik: Monkey and The Tiger
The Monkey and The Tiger includes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger." In the first, a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of D …
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€19.27
Robert van Gulik: Necklace and Calabash
Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee Mysteries are now available.Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and …
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€23.07
Robert van Gulik: Willow Pattern
Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague- and drought-ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families …
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€19.25
Robert van Gulik: Murder in Canton
Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee Mysteries are now available.Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and …
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€29.51
Robert van Gulik: Red Pavilion
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 p …
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€19.31
Robert van Gulik: Emperor’s Pearl
It all begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young woman turns up in a deserted country mansion. There …
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€19.27
Robert van Gulik: Haunted Monastery
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 …
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€19.29
Robert van Gulik: Chinese Maze Murders
Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor s garden maze and …
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€20.47
Robert van Gulik: Zagadki sędziego Di
Finałowa część cyklu poświęcona śledztwom, w które zaangażowany został sędzia Di. Utwór zawiera osiem opowiadań, a każde z nich jedno zawodowe wyzwanie rozwiązywane przez bohatera podczas pracy w czt …
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€3.99
Robert van Gulik: Sędzia Di i chiński wzór
Tytułowy bohater zostaje gubernatorem. Szybko przychodzi mu zmierzyć się z niezwykle trudną sytuacją panującą w mieście. Wybucha powstanie ludowe, wokół panują zaraza i susza. Mimo wyjątkowo niesprzy …
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€3.99
Robert van Gulik: Sędzia Di i perła cesarza
Sędzia Di znów mierzy się z kryminalną zagadką. W wiejskim dworze zostaje zamordowana młoda kobieta, a podczas smoczych regat życie traci występujący w zawodach mężczyzna. Śmierć dwojga ofiar wiąże s …
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€3.99
Robert van Gulik: Sędzia Di i zjawa
Nieopodal wąskich ulic tętniącego życiem miasteczka przy zachodniej granicy kraju sędzia Di prowadzi kolejne śledztwo. Tym razem zbrodnie miały miejsce w buddyjskim klasztorze, w którym pojawia się t …
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€3.99
Robert van Gulik: Sędzia Di i czerwony pawilon
Choć nazwa ‘Rajska Wyspa’ przywodzi na myśl wyłącznie pozytywne skojarzenia, w tym właśnie miejscu sędzia Di będzie musiał zmierzyć się z następną niezwykle trudną kryminalną historią. Di poznaje zat …
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€3.99
Robert van Gulik: Sędzia Di i poeci
Trwa festiwal w Chin-hwa. Sędzia Di stara się odnaleźć zabójcę młodej kobiety. Wkrótce dochodzi do kolejnego morderstwa – tym razem życie traci student. Spokój środowiska, które uważnie obserwuje sęd …
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€3.99
Robert van Gulik: Sędzia Di i wielki dzwon
Tym razem sędzia Di staje przed koniecznością rozwiązania kilku kryminalnych zagadek. Wyjątkowo wymagające będzie śledztwo zorientowane na poszukiwaniu zabójcy młodej kobiety. Trop prowadzi w stronę …
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€3.99
Robert van Gulik: Sędzia Di i parawan z laki
Sędzia Di przybywa do okręgu Wei-ping. Żona tamtejszego sędziego pokoju została zgwałcona i zasztyletowana. Mąż ofiary nie potrafi już sprawować swoich obowiązków, nie umie także zmierzyć się z poszu …
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€3.99
Robert van Gulik: Sędzia Di i nawiedzony klasztor
Klasztor Porannych Obłoków miał być bezpiecznym schronieniem dla odbywającego podróż sędziego Di. Tymczasem mają tam miejsce niewytłumaczalne racjonalnie wydarzenia. Widmo dawnych zbrodni to jednak n …
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€3.99
Robert van Gulik: Sędzia Di i chiński gwóźdź
Sędzia Di mierzy się z próbą wyjaśnienia serii morderstw. Tym razem tytułowy bohater nie zostaje przedstawiony jako genialny i nieomylny śledczy, ale jako człowiek, który ma prawo do pomyłki oraz świ …
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€3.99
Dee Goong An (Three Murder Cases Solved)
First published in the eighteenth century, Dee Goong An chronicles three of Judge Dee’s celebrated cases, woven together into a novel. A double murder among merchants, the fatal poisoning of a new br …
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€0.99
Robert van Gulik: Kínversku naglamorðin
Dagarnir hafa verið með rólegra móti hjá hinum háttvirta Dee dómara og varðliði hans síðan hann tók við dómaraembættinu í Pei-chow héraði. Þegar Yeh bræðurnir birtast óvænt í réttarsal hans verður þó …
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€1.99
Robert Van Gulik: Three Murder Cases Solved (Dee Goong An)
This book, written in the eighteenth century by a person well versed in the Chinese legal code, chronicles three of Judge Dee’s most celebrated cases, interwoven to form a novel. A double murder amon …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: The Chinese Maze Murders
Like its predecessors, The Chinese Maze Murders tells how three crimes were solved simultaneously by the famous magistrate-detective Judge Dee–justly described as ‘the Sherlock Holmes of ancient Chi …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: The Chinese Bell Murders
The Chinese Bell Murders is a gong’an historical mystery novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking, the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: The Chinese Lake Murders
In the year 666, Judge Dee, the newly appointed magistrate of the fictional town of Han-yuan, must solve three murders. Han-yuan is an isolated town famous for its floating brothels or ‘flower boats’ …
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Robert Van Gulik: The Chinese Nail Murders
In the remote and rugged northern frontier of the ancient Chinese Empire, newly appointed magistrate Judge Dee confronts the challenges of his harsh new post in Pei-chow. Here, he encounters three pe …
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Robert Van Gulik: The Red Pavilion
Judge Dee, the Magistrate of Poo-yang, has an unexpected meeting with the most powerful and famous courtesan on Paradise Island, Autumn Moon. A man who was well known to be studying to pass the Imper …
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Robert Van Gulik: The Haunted Monastery
The Abbot Jade Mirror is dead after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but Judge Dee calls it murder. Somewhere hidden in the tangled corridors of the monaste …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: The Lacquer Screen
In 663, Judge Dee is the young magistrate in the fictional Chinese town of Peng-lai. On a visit to a senior magistrate Teng in Wei-ping, he is shown a beautiful lacquer screen which is mysteriously a …
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Robert Van Gulik: The Monkey and The Tiger
Two tales of Judge Dee. ‘The Morning of the Monkey’ is set in the fictional city of Han-yuan in the year 666. One morning a gibbon drops an emerald ring right at the entrance to Judge Dee’s house. Th …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: The Willow Pattern
Judge Dee is now a senior member of the Chinese government and has been appointed the Chief Judge in the Tang capital of Chang-An. One of the city’s oldest, and most important aristocratic families b …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: Murder in Canton
At the height of his professional career, the master detective of ancient China is called to Canton to secretly investigate a mysterious disappearance, and finds himself entangled in a baffling web o …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: The Phantom of the Temple
Judge Dee, a magistrate in the fictional Lan-fang district has a problem: a mysterious phantom is haunting a Buddhist temple. In addition, some 20 bars of gold have gone missing, not to mention the m …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: Judge Dee at Work
These eight stories, featuring the master-detective of Ancient China and his assistants Ma Joong, Sergeant Hoong and Chiao Tai, cover a decade during which the judge served in four different province …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: Necklace and Calabash
Judge Dee’s fishing vacation plans are suddenly shattered when the inn cashier is found slain in a river. When he is summoned to the Emperor’s palace to find the princess’s stolen pearl necklace, he …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: Poets and Murder
In Judge Dee’s day, the literary world of Ancient China was one where intense study and almost ritualized scholarship were the rule, with academics and students alike dedicated to the highest concept …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: The Chinese Gold Murders
The Chinese Gold Murders takes us back to the beginning of Judge Dee’s career when, thirty-three years of age, he had been appointed to his first post in the provinces, viz. that of magistrate of Pen …
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Robert Van Gulik: The Emperor’s Pearl
Judge Dee, magistrate of Poo-yang a flourishing walled city on the Grand Canal, is attending the Dragon Boat races accompanied by his three ladies aboard his own official barge. He is mildly annoyed …
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€0.93
Robert Van Gulik: Chinese Gold Murders
Judge Dee is about to step into the shoes of a dead man Most people would refuse the job of Magistrate at the lonely port town of Peng-lai especially as the last occupant of the post has been found p …
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€8.99
