THE HAUNTED MONASTERY - A Chinese Mystery Story
by Van Gulik, Robert
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Columbus, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Kuala Lumpur: Art Printing Works, 1961. 168pp, short trade paperback, stiff paper covers, orange front cover and spine, white back cover, Illustration of monestery on front cover with red title and author name, white lettering on spine, one inch light crease across lower corner tip on front cover, other corner tips faintly rubbed, corner tips of most pages lightly bumped, synopsis of plot on back cover, sketch map of monestery on end pages and page 61, eight full page B&W illustrations drawn by the author "in the Chinese style", in ancient China the master-detective, Judge Dee, and his lieutenant, Tao Gan, seek shelter for the night in an old monastery during a rainstorm; and what a night! dead bodies, an underground crypt, a riddle to solve, and this is just the beginning of a long night, . First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by The Author.
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- Bookseller
- Karen Wickliff - Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w200327882
- Title
- THE HAUNTED MONASTERY - A Chinese Mystery Story
- Author
- Van Gulik, Robert
- Illustrator
- The Author
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Publisher
- Art Printing Works
- Place of Publication
- Kuala Lumpur
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Taoist Cloister Mountains Temple Girls Monk Detective Fiction Murders
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; China;
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Karen Wickliff - Books
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Columbus, Ohio
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