The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik Paperback Book 9780241704646

Judge Dee is about to step into the shoes of a dead manMost people would refuse the job of Magistrate at the lonely port town of Penglai especially as the last occupant of the post has been found poisoned in his library his papers missing But Judge Dee is not most men He arrives ready to get to the truth only to find his life complicated even further by a missing bride a vanished artisan a maneating tiger and an evil conspiracy