By the Edgar Award nominee and Anthony Award winner.Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catharine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en rout[...]
Shanghain poliisilaitoksen kaunosielu Chen Cao selvittää kaupungin historian ensimmäistä sarjamurhaa.Ylikomisario Chen Caon virkavapaa keskeytyy, kun sarjamurha järkyttää Shanghaita. Murhaaja surmaa nuoria naisia kuristamalla ja jättää ruumiit julkisille paikoille perinteiseen kiinalaismek[...]
Ylikomisario Chen Cao tutkii Maoon liittyviä tulenarkoja salaisuuksia.Shanghain poliisilaitoksen kaunosielu Chen Cao saa puoluejohdolta tehtäväkseen tutkia erään nuoren naisen äkkirikastumista.Jiao on Maon rakastajattaren tyttärentytär, ja puolue pelkää hänen rahoittaneen ylellisen eläm�[...]
Bailin kanavasta löytyy nuoren ja kauniin mallikansalaisen alaston ruumis, ja shanghailainen ylikomisario Chen Cao joutuu mahdottoman tehtävän eteen. Murhattu nainen on Puolueen ikoni, joka näyttää omistautuneen vain aatteelle sekä työlleen tavaratalon kosmetiikkaosastolla. Hänen elämäst�[...]
Puoluesihteeri Zhao tarjoaa Chen Caolle loman virkistyskeskuksessa Tai-järven rannalla. Lomakeskuksen lähellä sijaitsevassa ravintolassa Chen tutustuu Shanshan-nimiseen naiseen, joka kertoo hänelle paikallisen kemiantehtaan saastuttaneen järven sekä paikallisen ruuan. Kun tehtaanjohtaja murhat[...]
""Dark, gorgeous...feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --"Washington Post Book World" on" A Case of Two Cities
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party - a week's vacation at a luxurious r[...]
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often assigned cases considered politically "sensitive," and now the Minister of Public Security insists that Chen personally take on a 'special assignment.' Leery of international embarrassment, the party is concerned about rumors relate[...]
Published originally in the pages of "Le Monde, "this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France "(Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) "and Germany "(Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), "where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. Th[...]
Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen, a poet with a sound instinct for self-preservation, knows the city like few others. When the body of a prominent Communist Party member [...]
Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country. Her husband, a key witness against a smuggling ring suspected of importing aliens to the US, refuses to testify until she is found and brought to join him in America. A few days later, a bad[...]
When Inspector Chen Cao agrees to do a translation job for a Triad-connected businessman he is given a laptop, a 'little secretary' to provide for his every need, medical care for his mother. There are, it seems, no strings attached ...Then a murder is reported: Chen is loath to shorten his working [...]
Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly charged corruption investigation. Tentacles have spread through the police force, the civil service, the vice trade and deep into the criminal underworld. The principal figure and his family hav[...]
Political corruption, capitalist greed and past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai. An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress, she had been dumped, barely concealed, on a traffic island. The death of a dancing g[...]
Tucked away from the building sites of modern Shanghai are the beautiful mansions once owned by the smartest families in 1930s China. They have since been bought by rich businessmen and high-ranking members of the Communist Party. All except one. The owner is an old painter who holds a glittering pa[...]
""Dark, gorgeous...feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --"Washington Post Book World" on" A Case of Two Cities
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party - a week's vacation at a luxurious r[...]
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situation--a poet by training and inclination, he was assigned by the party to the Police Department after he graduated college, where he has continued to shine. Now he's a rising cadre in the party, in line to take over the[...]
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situation--a poet by training and inclination, he was assigned by the party to the Police Department after he graduated college, where he has continued to shine. Now he's a rising cadre in the party, in line to take over the[...]
"Sublime . . . complex and riveting."--Maureen Corrigan, "The Washington Post Book World"
"A vivid picture of modern Chinese society . . . a work of real distinction."--"The Wall Street Journal"
" A] terrific series. . . . Qiu's] perspective on China gives the mystery genre a cultural twist[...]