The Emperor's Pearl

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The Emperor's Pearl
First UK edition
Author	Robert van Gulik
Series	Judge Dee
Genre	Gong'an fiction, Mystery, Detective novel, Chinese crime fiction
Publisher	Heinemann (UK) Scribner (US)^[1]
Publication date	1963
Media type	Print
Pages	184
Preceded by	The Haunted Monastery
Followed by	The Monkey and the Tiger

The Emperors Pearl is a gong'an detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.

Plot introduction

Judge Dee, magistrate of Poo-yang, a flourishing walled city on the Grand Canal, is attending the Dragon Boat races accompanied by his three ladies aboard his own official barge. He is mildly annoyed by the intrusions of assorted callers and the loss of a blank domino (he and his ladies are keen players). He is more than annoyed when the sad, sudden death of a young student crewing one of the boats turns out to be deliberate murder.

Even more disturbing is the murder of the young Second Lady of a prominent local merchant and collector, which is witnessed by the Judge himself. Obviously very odd things are going on at the deserted villa at the edge of the River Goddess's overgrown mandrake grove. Throw in an apparently cursed Imperial Treasure and a perverted madman and the Judge has his hands full.

Poo-yang was the setting for The Chinese Bell Murders. Three other cases – Necklace and Calabash, Poets and Murder, and The Red Pavilion – took place during his term as magistrate.

Literary significance and criticism

"Whether the reader or the writer is the first to tire of a formula may be argued with the aid of any given example such as this story. The fact remains that the characters, events, and tricks now seem close to played out".^[2]

References

^ http://www.iblist.com/book61616.htm
^ Barzun, Jacques and Taylor, Wendell Hertig. A Catalogue of Crime. New York: Harper & Row. 1971, revised and enlarged edition 1989. ISBN 0-06-015796-8

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Books	Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee The Chinese Maze Murders The Chinese Bell Murders The Chinese Gold Murders The Chinese Lake Murders The Chinese Nail Murders The Haunted Monastery The Red Pavilion The Lacquer Screen The Emperor's Pearl The Willow Pattern Murder in Canton The Phantom of the Temple Judge Dee at Work Necklace and Calabash Poets and Murder
Films	Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010) Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013) Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (2018)
TV series	Amazing Detective Di Renjie (2004) Amazing Detective Di Renjie 2 (2006) Amazing Detective Di Renjie 3 (2008) Mad Detective Di Renjie (2010) Young Sherlock (2014) Judge Dee's Mystery (2024)
Video Games	Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders (2019)

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