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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Fantastic Fiction disagrees with the wiki.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/robert-van-gulik/
Series
Judge Dee
Dee Goong An (1949)
aka Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
The Chinese Bell Murders (1958)
New Year's Eve in Lan-Fang (1958)
The Chinese Gold Murders (1959)
The Chinese Lake Murders (1960)
The Chinese Nail Murders (1961)
The Haunted Monastery (1961)
The Red Pavilion (1961)
The Chinese Maze Murders (1962)
And even if you go by the wiki, it's still not #1 as Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee was written first. |
Look at this link at fantasticfiction:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/...ze-murders.htm
It shows a hardback of
Chinese Maze Murders published in 1956. So I think we can accept that date, m'kay?
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee was a translation from the Chinese. After translating it, van Gulik went on to write
Chinese Maze Murders. If you'd read the links you post, instead of misrepresenting them in the interest of your own agenda, you'd know that.
To repeat:
Chinese Maze Murders was the first Judge Dee mystery written by van Gulik. That's why the University of Chicago made it free when they published the series, to introduce people to them. A lot of people here picked it up when it was free.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/bo...bo3628724.html