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JADE DRAGON MOUNTAIN.

JADE DRAGON MOUNTAIN.

JADE DRAGON MOUNTAIN.

JADE DRAGON MOUNTAIN.

by Hart, Elsa

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  • Hardcover
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ISBN 10
1250072328
ISBN 13
9781250072320
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New York: Minotaur, 2015. 321 pp, 9 1/2" H. "On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell. Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile on his way out of the country forever. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself. When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing. Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort, the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who can't keep his own story straight. Beyond the sloping roofs and festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out of China forever. He must choose whether to leave and embrace his exile or to stay and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems all too willing to forget." Wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, two very small dents on top edge of front board, remainder mark on bottom of text block. Dust jacket has light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

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Bookseller
Capricorn Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
30677
Title
JADE DRAGON MOUNTAIN.
Author
Hart, Elsa
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
1250072328
ISBN 13
9781250072320
Publisher
Minotaur
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2015
Keywords
China, 18th Century, Murder, Detectives, Detective Fiction, Li Du, Dayan, Eclipses, Eclipse of Sun, Jesuits, Astronomers, East India Company, Missionaries, Festivals, Mysteries, Historical Fiction, Historical Mysteries.
Bookseller catalogs
MYSTERIES; Historical Fiction;

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