The Red Pavilion

Blurb

The Red Pavilion is a gong'an detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China. It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee, a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.
The book features six illustrations by the author and a map of Paradise Island.
This novel is a mystery of the type known as a locked room mystery.