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Inspector Chen mystery #3
Soho Crime
August 2005
On Sale: August 1, 2005
Featuring: Inspector Chen
320 pages
ISBN: 156947396X
EAN: 9781569473962
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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.
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