The Touch of Murder: The Tale of the Magistrate Pt. 1

Sometimes justice punishes the innocent If it were up to Magistrate Tao Jun, he would solve every mystery with a sword and a fake name (and maybe a fancy silk robe). So when a missing person becomes a murder investigation, he's (happily) on the case. But all is not as it seems. As the magistrate digs deeper, he finds: an assassin trying to kill him, a trail of blood, a web of lies, and a conman wanted in two cities. And somehow, in the centre of all this deception, is a girl with a mysterious past... Well, dodging archers' arrows is more fun than paperwork anyway. Set amid the Tales of the Swordsman and the Tales of the Jianghu series, this is a detective story with wuxia action (a futou-noir story, if you will). This story follows beloved (and totally corrupt) Magistrate Tao Jun and his dry and irreverent take on the jianghu and the bureaucracy of being a magistrate.