The Monkey and the Tiger

Name: The Monkey and the Tiger
Rating: 7 (32 reviews)
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detective fiction by Robert van Gulik

Blurb

The Monkey and the Tiger book pairs two unrelated short gong'an detective novels written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China. Both stories are fictions based on the real character of Judge Dee, a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.
The book contains eight illustrations and a map, all by the author.