The Emperor’s Pearl - Robert van Gulik

Category: Historical Fiction, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: 7th Century Judge Dee Mystery Medieval China Tang Dynasty

Written by Robert van Gulik
Read by Peter Kim
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

The Emperor’s Pearl: A Judge Dee Mystery
By: Robert van Gulik
Narrated by: Peter Kim
Series: Judge Dee Mystery
Release date
02-01-2026
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
5 hrs and 35 mins
Publisher
Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Categories
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The latest puzzling mystery facing Jude Dee begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young woman turns up in a deserted country mansion. There, Judge Dee—tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger—steps in to investigate the murders and return order to the Tang Dynasty.

In The Emperor’s Pearl, the judge discovers that these two deaths are connected by an ancient tragedy involving a near-legendary treasure stolen from the Imperial Harem one hundred years earlier. The terrifying figure of the White Lady, a river goddess enshrined on a bloodstained altar, looms in the background of the investigation. Clues are few and elusive, but under the expert hand of Robert van Gulik, this mythic jigsaw puzzle assembles itself into a taut mystery.

“If you have not yet discovered Judge Dee and his faithful Sgt. Hoong, I envy you that initial pleasure which comes from the discovery of a great detective story. For the magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes.”—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

This audiobook is expertly read by Peter Kim, with audio engineering by Sam Platt. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©1963 Robert van Gulik (P)2026 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC