[The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox 03] • Eight skilled gentlemen

[The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox 03] • Eight skilled gentlemen
Authors
Hughart, Barry
Publisher
Doubleday
Tags
china , fantastic fiction , historical , general , fiction - fantasy , mystery , fantasy - historical , humour , science fiction , fiction , fantasy
ISBN
9780385417099
Date
1990-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.18 MB
Lang
en
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“Monsters, mandarins, and murder…” the refrain haunts Master Li. And no wonder. First, a vampire ghoul surfaces in Peking’s wealthy Coal Hill cemetery and rips the head off an unfortunate body. Esoteric clues lead Master Li to a startling deduction: the body in question belonged to a mandarin minister. Next, a trip to the Forbidden City reveals that the victim’s colleagues had hushed up his mysterious disappearance, no less his dismal fate.

Worse yet, a second mandarin is murdered in an equally strange fashion. Master Li and Number Ten Ox bear witness to the crime—but the murderer, unbelievably, is a mythological demon; one of eight long-dead demons who, eons ago, performed evil for eight long dead shamans.

Now our detectives are bound for the mystical isle of Yu. With the help of the accomplished puppeteer, Yen Shih, and his shaman daughter, the bewitching Yu Lan, they intend to unravel this odd mystery. And they’ll need all the magic they can muster. For the wit and wisdom of Master Li may be no match for the ghostly eight…and their deadly demons.