Robert van Gulik's
狄公案 gong'an detective novel of Judge Dee's adventures. The most complicated and implausible story, containing State Secrets of the Tang Chinese Empire (The Emperor is dying and the transgender
Chief Eunuch of the Imperial seraglio is conspiring to change the dynasty) and exotic and passionate prostitutes living on floating hotels. In the end all the personages are poisoned, suffocated by a silk handkerchief with a silver coin in it (so the dead man's spirit will not haunt the murderer), pierced by a javelin thrown through the window.
Too much for me.
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