The Chinese Nail Murders

<p><strong>The ancient Chinese detective Judge Dee returns for a fourth and final time in <em>The Chinese Nail Murders</em>. Though the setting is exotic and the time period ancient Judge Dee has all the style and swagger of a modern Sherlock Holmes.</strong> </p><p>Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow--a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire. It is here that he is faced with three strange and disturbing crimes: the theft of precious jewels the disappearance of a girl in love and the fiendish murder involving the nude headless body of a woman. And even more curious the crimes seem to be linked together by clues from a popular game of the period the Seven Board.</p><p><strong>First published in the 1950s <em>The Chinese Nail Murders</em></strong> includes charming illustrations and an epilogue that details the origins of each case and how the author discovered them.</p>