Eight Skilled Gentlemen
264 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1991
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ISBN: 9780385417105
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Publication date: 1 December 1990
Description
Once again World Fantasy Award-winner Barry Hughart blends folklore and fantasy to create a work of enchantment set in an ancient China that never was…but should have been. Master Li and Number Ten Ox—heroes of Bridge of Birds and The Story of the Stone—return to solve the mystery of how and why respected mandarins are being mysteriously murdered. Unbelievably, the only suspects appear to be mythical demons…