A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths.
He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century..
About the Author: Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture.
Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution.
A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths
