Author: Qiu Xiaolong
Year: 2004
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Mystery, Fiction, Crime
Culture: China
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9781569473962
156947396X |
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Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is taking a vacation, in part because he is annoyed at his boss, Party Secretary Li, but also because he has been made an offer he can't refuse by Gu, a triad-connected businessman. For what seems to be a fortune-with no apparent strings attached- he is to translate a business proposal for the New World, a complex of shops and restaurants to be built in Central Shanghai, evoking nostalgia for the "glitter and glamour" of the 1930s.
It is up to Detective Yu, Chen's partner, to take charge of a new case. Yin, a novelist, has been murdered in her room. At first it seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, but when one confesses, Yu cannot believe that he is really the killer. As Yu looks further into Yin's life, ample motives begin to surface, even on the part of Internal Security. But it is only when Inspector Chen steps back into the investigation that the culprit is apprehended. And then Chen discovers how Gu has played him and how he, in turn, can play the new capitalist system.
This book is part of the "Inspector Chen Cao" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Shanghai Redemption"
First published in 2014
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 | "The Mao Case"
First published in 2009
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 | "Red Mandarin Dress"
First published in 2007
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 | "A Case of Two Cities"
First published in 2006
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