“Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript” by Lavie Tidhar

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Rating: 3/5 Stars

Story can be read on-line: https://www.tor.com/2022/11/09/judge-dee-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-manuscript-lavie-tidhar/

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.

Story read from 2022/11/28 to 2022/11/29