The Chinese Lake Murders.

ROBERT VAN GULIK

Publication: Michael Joseph, 1960, London

First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket, lightly soiled on rear panel and faint evidence of glue residue from removal of a small label from front and spine panels. A courtesan performs a bewitching dance aboard a flower boat and minutes later is discovered drowned in the waters of a haunted lake. A bride dies on her wedding night and then disappears from her sealed and guarded casket. Soon the town of Han-yuan murmurs the forbidden name ... White Lotus. Judge Dee investigates these strange happenings.

Inventory Number: 34201