Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee Audiobook (Free)

Long before Traditional western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese language had developed an extended tradition of literary functions that chronicled the instances of important district magistrates. One of the most celebrated of these was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century AD.

This book, written anonymously in the eighteenth century, interweaves three of Judge Dee’s most baffling cases: a double murder among traveling merchants, the fatal poisoning of the bride on her wedding night, as well as the suspicious death of a shop keeper with a lovely wife. The crimes take him up and down the fantastic silk routes, into historic graveyards where he consults the spirits of the inactive, and through all degrees of society, leading him to some brilliant detective work.