A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths.
"The Red Pavilion is one of the best novels in this excellent series."--Art Goodwin, WHEN-TV
"So scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner yet so nicely equipped with everything to satisfy the modern reader."--New York Times
Robert van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from popular detective
novels that appeared in the seventeenth century.