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词条 The Chinese Nail Murders
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  1. Plot introduction

  2. References

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| name = The Chinese Nail Murders
| image = Image:ChineseNailMurders.jpg
| caption = First UK edition
| author = Robert van Gulik
| cover_artist =
| series = Judge Dee
| genre = Gong'an fiction, Mystery, Detective novel, Crime
| publisher = Michael Joseph (UK)
Harper & Row (US)
| release_date = 1961
| media_type = Print
| pages = 216
| isbn =
| preceded_by = The Chinese Gold Murders
| followed_by = The Haunted Monastery
}}

The Chinese Nail Murders is a gong'an detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700 BC.

Plot introduction

Judge Dee, and his four helpers, solve three murders: that of an honored merchant, a master of martial arts, and the wife of a merchant, whose corpse has no head. Judge Dee soon comes under pressure from higher-ranking officials to end his investigation. Naturally, Judge Dee refuses to give up until he has learned the whole truth.

A nail murder was a motif of crime in ancient China.[1]

The case of the headless corpse was based on an actual 13th-century Chinese murder casebook.

References

1. ^{{Cite journal|pmc=2579034|year=1999|last1=Summers|first1=WC|title=The Chinese Nail Murders: Forensic medicine in Imperial China|volume=72|issue=6|pages=409–419|journal=The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine|pmid=11138936}}
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6 : 1961 novels|Judge Dee|Gong'an novels|Harper & Row books|Novels set in the 7th century|Novels set in the Tang dynasty

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