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Originally Posted by issybird
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. |
So you are agreeing that it's not the first book.
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee is the first as you say he wrote
Chinese Maze Murders after that. So can we then agree that
Chinese Maze Murders is #2?