Judge Dee/Funny

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  • Just about every encounter with Po Kai in The Chinese Gold Murders. The honorable Mr. Wang is having way to much fun with his disguise.
  • In The Haunted Monastery the Judge reflects disgustedly that he has managed to bring together two young couples but failed to find the murderer. "I should give up being a magistrate and become a matchmaker!"
  • Miss Violet Liang's matter of fact description of her citizen's arrest of three kidnappers in The Emperor's Pearl is hilarious.
  • In-story, Ma Jong's Orphaned Punchline about the bed collapsing in The Chinese Lake Murders.