The Tang Dynasty's Mysterious Prison Files: A Hundred Ingenious Cases Involving Death Row Inmates of the Zhenguan Era

In the autumn of the sixth year of the Zhenguan era, condemned prisoner Di Hong knelt before the execution block at the Dali Temple. The executioner’s blade reflected the bronze seal script that had suddenly appeared between his brows. It was the moment he activated the Record of Judicial Inference. Two culprits stood behind the poisoning at the West Market embroidery shop; a coffin sunk in the canal held a twenty-year-old blood feud; and the disappearance of military funds on the border implicated corrupt officials across three provinces... The condemned man used sin as bait: solve a case, gain a measure of insight; unravel a scheme, improve his powers of deduction. Only when the sins of a hundred cases had forged him into a Grandmaster of Criminal Justice did he realize that the case in which his entire family had been framed and slaughtered was merely the first piece in a plot to expose the secrets of the Xuanwu Gate!