by Robert van Gulik
University of Chicago Press, 1965
Paper: 978-0-226-84869-3 | eISBN: 978-0-226-84901-0
Library of Congress Classification PR9130.9.G8M66 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification 823

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Monkey and The Tiger includes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger." In the first, a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of Dee's official residence, leading the judge to discover a strangely mutilated body in the woods—and how it got there. In the second, Dee is traveling to the imperial capital to assume a new position when he is separated from his escort by a flood. Marooned in a large country house surrounded by fierce bandits, Dee confronts an apparition that helps him solve a mystery.