Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor's garden maze and the answers to three interwoven mysteries. The Chinese Maze Murders represents Robert van Gulik's first venture into writing suspense novels after the success of Dee Gong An, his translation of an anonymous Chinese detective novel from the sixteenth century....

The great Chinese detective Judge Dee begins work on the most disquieting case of his career when he reviews a rape and murder on Half Moon Street, an investigation that brings him face to face with a clan of killer monks and a long-standing feud between two of the city's most important families.

A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths.

A collection of eight stories about Judge Dee, covering a decade in which the judge served in four different provinces of the Tang Empire, dispensing his own brand of Confucian justice.