The lacquer screen

Description:

From Goodreads: "Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honorable than the magistrate."

subjects: Judges,  History,  Fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Dee jen-djieh (fictitious character), fiction,  China, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, historical, general

People: Renjie Di (629-700)

Places: China

Times: Tang dynasty, 618-907