The Haunted Monastery
1961 NOVEL BY ROBERT VAN GULIK
Haunted Monastery; Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
The Haunted Monastery 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 (Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.