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Though these two books are different animals, they are both eminently readable. I just have to admit that anyone who uses torture is probably not going to seem that amiable or likable, so the character has a one-up in HAUNTED MONASTERY. Though there is no problem with the first book and it is completely enjoyable, this shift in focus on Dee's personality makes it less troublesome to get through. This book, a completely original tale, has no torture to speak of and Judge Dee comes off more as an everyman detective as you might find in contemporary (1950s) fiction than as the high and mighty Magistrate portrayed in CELEBRATED CASES. Again, I'll let someone else speak for me, in this case wikipedia, about the plot: Each case is completely separate from the other but completely intertwined in the telling of the story.
The result was THE CELEBRATED CASES OF JUDGE DEE (Dee Goong An 1949). Because of the brevity of this story, being shorter than thousands of pages with much less than hundreds of characters (so being more close to what the modern world would consider a book), he felt it would be great material to translate for a modern audience.
He stumbled across an anonymously written 1800s pulp story about one of these judges from the 600s. He was a mid-20th Century Dutch diplomat whose work brought him to Japan and China where he became an expert on Chinese history. This is something that went by the Western world without anyone ever noticing.
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These books were huge and full of intricate information. Sort of like epic pulp fiction, as the cast of characters ranged into the hundreds along with an even higher number of chapters, with each chapter being hundreds of pages. The only thing they didn't do by hand was the physical act of torturing or capital punishment.There is apparently a long history in China of these judges being written about in fictionalized accounts.
They were out in the field doing detective work and police procedurals with investigating, interrogating, torturing and convicting criminals. Just briefly: Di Ren Jie was a judge who it turns out like most judges of the time, were more like Judge Dread than Judge Judy. So I have a brief review of two books and then for the more curious, a few links at the bottom of the page to the most enlightening articles. But I keep coming across articles and blogs that have already covered the territory I was going to cover. He was a magistrate during Tang Dynasty (7th Century via Western calender) China. I was going to write a big article on the historical figure Di Ren Jie. The best place to keep track of it all is at Coming Attractions. There is also a whole world of pulp reprints and new material being published these days. How can you not love biplanes vs pterodactyls! Strange fought demons and dinosaurs on the European battlefront. These can be found at Adventures in Bronze.Īlso, earlier this year I talked about Donald Keyhoe's Philip Strange, WWI flying ace. The STRAND also rediscovered a lost Dashiell Hammett story "So I Shot Him" published in the Feb 28th 2011 issue.Īs mentioned above, Will Murray has a new line of Doc Savage novels being published. It is now on sale at their website.Īnd then we have the books and magazines! First off, we have the holiday issue of The STRAND magazine which is printing a lost Cornell Woolrich story "Never Kick a Dick" which is set in a hotel overlooking Biscayne Bay.
CELEBRATED CASES OF JUDGE DEE DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE MOVIE
Previously the HPLHS produced the silent short movie THE CALL OF CTHULHU and they have now produced a feature length "talkie" adaptation of Whisperer. Lovecraft Historical Society's latest film THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS. If you want to have a really interesting stocking stuffer for your pulpy friends this year, I highly recommend this film!Ī late breaking entry for DVD is the H. You can now buy a signed DVD for $15 straight from the director. It is a dark, brooding, supernatural hard-boiled neo-Noir with loads of action, drama and phantasmagorical effects. The Hush has everything hitting the right marks. But don't let that fool you into thinking it is not a quality production. This is a really fun movie that doesn't take itself seriously but hits all the right buttons for super pulpy action.Īnd finally for DVDs, as I mentioned on Facebook, what I consider the must have movie of the year for the Weird Menace pulp aficionado is Vincent Cortez's The HUSH. I have to mention one of my favorite modern hard-boiled flicks, GIVE 'EM HELL MALONE which is an over the top action mystery that is part Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT and part fevered action romp as seen in the writings of The Spider's author Norvell Page.
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