The Chinese Nail MurdersThe ancient Chinese detective Judge Dee returns for a fourth and final time in The Chinese Nail Murders. Though the setting is exotic and the time period ancient, Judge Dee has all the style and swagger of a modern Sherlock Holmes. Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei chowa distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire. It is here that he is faced with three strange and disturbing crimes: the theft of precious

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From Stephanie Hemphill

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and poignant memories from their thirty years together

you are on the threshold of a mind-expanding opportunity

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