van Gulik, Robert, with new introduction by Donald F. Lach, — The Chinese Bell Murders.

Chicago, Univ of Chicago Press, (1977). 77th ptg. VG PB. One of a series of Judge Dee detective novels written in the 1950s by Dutch diplomat van Gulik, an authority on Chinese. history & culture. Dee is a near mythic figure in the pre-Communist Chinese consciousness, a tribunal magistrate, inquisitor & public avenger. Fading near spine edge, back cover rubbed.