Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript

, #5

eBook

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2022 by Tor Publishing Group.

3 stars (1 review)

1 edition

Even vampire Judges must answer to authority over unreturned items

3 stars

Next in the series of stories about the Vampire Judge Dee and his human assistant, Jonathan, this one starts with Judge Dee being judged by a monastery of vampires with arrears over an item he had earlier borrowed, before getting into the murders, which may be over the contents of a book rumoured to be about the dead.

Compared to previous stories, there is not much detective work in this one, which has an obvious suspect and a 'MacGuffin' vampire, who just happens to know how to deal with the protections surrounding the rumoured book. In the end, the story is more about the author's world of vampires than a real mystery.