The Red Pavilion
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968.
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4", orange cloth, 173pp, illustrated, with a Postscript by the author. Item #900642
ISBN: 0060152060
With six illustrations drawn by the author. A mystery whose fictional detective is Judge Dee, an actual person who lived in China 630 to 700 a.d., during the Tang dynasty. Besides earning fame as a great detective, he was also a brilliant statesman who played an important role in the internal and foreign polices of the Tang Empire.
The fictional Judge Dee finds himself on Paradise Island, an island resort renowned for gambling, prostitution and debauchery, and becomes involved in the promiscuous love life of a beautiful courtesan, must deal with rape and murder, and gets enmeshed in a gruesome old crime, committed thirty years before.
Bookseller's ink stamp, two ink dates and erasures first free endpaper, staining to fore- and bottom-edges, wear to extreme tips and spine ends of cloth, still very good in worn, tape-repaired dust wrapper, in protective mylar.
Price: $20.00