Poets and Murder (1968) - Robert van Gulik

Category: Historical Fiction, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: 7th Century Judge Dee Mystery Medieval China Tang Dynasty

Written by Robert van Gulik
Read by Peter Kim
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Poets and Murder: A Judge Dee Mystery
By: Robert van Gulik
Narrated by: Peter Kim
Series: Judge Dee Mystery
Release date
14-05-2026
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
5 hrs and 49 mins
Publisher
Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Categories
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

A double murder confounds everyone in this mystery–but not the beloved detective Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes

Judge Dee, the master detective of seventh-century China, sets out to solve a puzzling double murder and discovers complex passions lurking beneath the placid surface of academic life. A mild-mannered student is rumored to have been slain by a fox-demon, while a young dancer meets her death as she dresses to perform for the magistrate’s illustrious dinner guests—an obese Zen monk revered for his calligraphy, a beautiful poetess accused of murder, and the past president of the imperial academy. To connect the present crimes with betrayals and adulteries from decades past, the clever judge must visit a high-class brothel and the haunted shrine of the Black Fox. From the moment the young scholar is found dead on the eve of the Autumn Festival, the pace never lets up.

This audiobook is expertly read by Peter Kim, with audio engineering by Sam Platt. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

✔︎ Poets and Murder (1968)
aka The Fox-Magic Murders