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Qiu Xiaolong

Death Of A Red Heroine

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 02/07/2008 - 12:46pm by Karen Chisholm

A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal.

As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Chen Cao
No in Series: 
1

Death of a Red Heroine, Qiu Xiaolong

REVIEW ADDED: Fri, 10/06/2011 - 2:50pm by Karen Chisholm

To my mind, the very best crime fiction in the world provides a window into the world in which it is set.  Be that the psyche of the people, the machinations of the society, how a community is structured and operates, the laws and mores, even the way in which authorities deal with the...Read more

Author: 
Qiu Xiaolong
Crime Fiction