The Poisoned Bride and Other Judge Dee Stories
List of Illustrations
Translator’s Preface
Dramatis Personae

First Chapter

Judge Dee is appointed magistrate of Chang-ping; The people crowd his tribunal to report grievances.

Second Chapter

Warden Pang’s slander brings harm on his own head; Sergeant Hoong obtains a clue by a clever surmise.

Third Chapter

Koong avers there is some mistake about the bodies; Judge Dee goes to sell drugs in a physician’s disguise.

Fourth Chapter

Disguised as a doctor, Judge Dee visits a patient; Finding a dumb girl, his suspicions are aroused.

Fifth Chapter

A conversation in a bathhouse reveals new facts; In a graveyard a prayer calls up a lost soul.

Sixth Chapter

An old man indulges in disrespectful language; Judge Dee initiates the official investigation.

Seventh Chapter

Mrs. Bee denies that her son has been murdered; Judge Dee’s first interrogation of Bee Hsun’s widow.

Eighth Chapter

Accused of murder, Mrs. Djou speaks clever words; Her mother’s stupidity excites everyone’s pity.

Ninth Chapter

The undertaker shows the location of the grave; Judge Dee has the coffin exhumed for an autopsy.

Tenth Chapter

Mrs. Djou refuses to let her husband be buried; Judge Dee visits the temple for spiritual guidance.

Eleventh Chapter

A hint in a book proves applicable to the case; A dream supplies hidden clues to past events.

Twelfth Chapter

A verse in a dream directs suspicion to a Mr. Hsu; Ma Joong obtains important clues in a village inn.

Thirteenth Chapter

Judge Dee himself sets out for Divine Village; The silk merchant starts preliminary negotiations.

Fourteenth Chapter

Ma Joong and Djao engage in a bout of wrestling; A meeting of two brothers of the green woods.

Fifteenth Chapter

Djao gives a clear account of the real murderer; Judge Dee allows Mrs. Djou to return to her home.


Interlude

Sixteenth Chapter

A deaf constable reveals the key to the problem; Judge Dee sends out his men for apprehending Shao.

Seventeenth Chapter

Djao learns the ways of the people of the passes; Having found Shao, he is enticed by a clever lie.

Eighteenth Chapter

Halfway from the passes a criminal is arrested; In the tribunal of Chang-ping the trial is opened.

Nineteenth Chapter

Judge Dee closes the case of Six Mile Village; Mr. Hua rushes to the court and reports a murder.

Twentieth Chapter

Candidate Hoo’s jest brings calamity over his head; Judge Dee starts an inquiry in the Hua mansion.

Twentyfirst Chapter

Judge Dee decides to forego an autopsy on the bride; He tries in vain to discover the source of the poison.

Twentysecond Chapter

Judge Dee finds a clue to the murder of the bride; Sergeant Hoong conducts a secret investigation.

Twentythird Chapter

Judge Dee sends his visiting card to Doctor Tang; In the Hua mansion he reveals the bride’s secret.

Twentyfourth Chapter

What happened to the old doctor of literature; A thief in the night makes a strange discovery.

Twentyfifth Chapter

A great ado is made about arresting a burglar; The ruse succeeds, and Ma Joong catches his man.

Twentysixth Chapter

A bookish gentleman gets an unpleasant surprise; A secret passage supplies the key to the mystery.

Twentyseventh Chapter

A depraved nobleman at last confesses to his guilt; An adulterous woman persists in her innocence.

Twentyeighth Chapter

A weird interrogation is conducted in the jail; A confession is obtained, and the mystery solved.

Twentyninth Chapter

Judge Dee closes the case of the strange corpse; An Imperial Censor drinks tea in the Water Pavilion.

Thirtieth Chapter

Three criminals suffer the extreme penalty; A court messenger arrives with urgent orders.


Translator’s Postscript

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