Red Mandarin Dress - An Inspector Chen Mystery

An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress, she had been dumped on a traffic island. The death of a 'dancing girl' was unpleasant but only unusual in that she had been left so openly in the centre of town. She had probably angered one of the 'Mr Big Bucks' who were taking over and transforming Shanghai.

Inspector Chen is an intuitive investigator, a talented poet and an honourable man on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Desperate to find a way out of the perilous police career that had been chosen for him, he is on leave. Then another girl is found dead. With a serial killer on the loose, Chen is pulled back to work and into his most dangerous assignment yet.

About the author

Qiu Xiiaolong wurde 1953 in Shanghai geboren. Er arbeitete als Übersetzer, Lyriker und Literaturkritiker. 1988 reiste er in die USA und kehrte nach dem Massaker am Tiananmen Platz nicht nach China zurück. Seit 1994 lehrt er an der Washington Universität St. Louis chinesische Literatur und Sprache.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaolong Qiu, QIU XIAOLONG
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.07.2008
• EAN: 9780340935194
• ISBN: 978-0-340-93519-4
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 177 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Sceptre Paperbacks; Oberinspektor Chen; Sceptre Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Chinesische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)