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A Case of Two Cities by Qiu Xiaolong
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the party to take the lead in a corruption investigation
A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Inspector Chen Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important crime trial, to the States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has vanished from her village in Fujian. ...Show more
A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
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 badly ...Show more
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
$32.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Inspector Chen 1 | Reading Level: very good
Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series. 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 promi ...Show more
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 is f ...Show more
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
$36.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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 is f ...Show more
Red Mandarin Dress by Qiu Xiaolong
$39.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
When a young girl is found murdered wearing nothing but a torn red mandarin dress, it does not completely surprise Detective Yu. Possibly one of those material girls fallen foul of the triads or a dangerous Mr Big Bucks. Lying low after a corruption investigation that could have tainted him badly politi ...Show more
The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong
$39.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Tucked away from the building sites of modernShanghai are the beautiful mansions once owned by the smartest families in 1930sChina. 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. Each day he teaches his studen ...Show more
When Red is Black by Qiu Xiaolong
$31.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: As Heard on Radio 4 Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 holi ...Show more
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