Nd’s Reviews > The Haunted Monastery and the Chinese Maze Murders: Two Chinese Detective Novels, With 27 Illustrations by the Author > Status Update

I loved The Haunted Monastery. Judge Dee, his three wives, his aide Tao Gan, and two coachmen were returning to Han-yuan from a holiday. As they drove through the high mountains in strong winds and pouring rain, an axle broke. Judge Dee, magistrate of the district, sent the coachmen to the only inhabited place in the area, the old Morning Cloud Monastery higher up the mountain.