Still rereading Poets and Murder. It is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Judge Dee is spending a few days at the palatial residence of his colleague in Chin-wah, who has prepared a lavish dinner for three eminent poets. Two murders have already been committed, that of a student searching for his father's murderer and that of a young dancer, and Judge Dee is already on both cases. I remember how this novel will end, but I always willingly read it through, for I am immediately transported to the picturesque scenes and lifestyles of exotic, ancient China when I do so.