Four Fingers

2 hrs. 33 min.

Language Russian

Author Robert van Gulik

Narrator Valeria Lebedeva

Robert van Gulik became famous twice. First, as a world-renowned scholar of the East and a high-ranking diplomat; then, in the late 1940s, he decided to write his first detective novel about Judge Dee. Van Gulik used intricate plots from classical Chinese literature—stories not particularly known to Western authors. The success exceeded all expectations.
The prototype of Judge Dee was a real Chinese official who lived in the 7th century and was famous for uncovering many mysterious crimes; he also became the hero of medieval Chinese criminal tales. As in those tales, Van Gulik’s hero encounters a wide variety of mysteries.

“The Four Fingers” is one of Van Gulik’s first, but also one of his most famous detective stories.

1. The Chinese Gold Murders (narrated by Alexander Dubina) 1.1. Judge Dee at Work (narrated by Irina Vorobyova) 2. The Lacquer Screen (narrated by Evgenia Ionkina) 3. Murder on the Mountain Lake (narrated by Valentin Aksentiuk) 3. Murder on the Houseboat (narrated by Evgenia Ionkina) 4. Four Fingers 5. The Haunted Monastery (narrated by Valentin Aksentiuk) 6. Murder on Half Moon Street (narrated by Valeria Lebedeva) 7. Poets and Murder (narrated by Vladimir Sushkov) 8. The Necklace and the Gourd (narrated by Valeria Lebedeva) 9. The Red Pavilion (narrated by Vladimir Sushkov) 10. The Emperor's Pearl (narrated by Irina Vorobyova) 11. The Chinese Gold Murders (narrated by Mikhail Pozdnyakov) 12. The Phantom in the Temple (narrated by Natalya Karpunina) 13. The Nails of the Coffin (narrated by Mikhail Pozdnyakov) 15. The Willow Pattern (narrated by Valeria Lebedeva)