Red Mandarin Dress

by QiuXiaolong (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $7.71

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  Paperback
  2008

  $5.38

  Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series. 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 girl was unpleasant but this was particularly unusual in that she had been left openly in the centre of town. She had probably angered one of the Mr Big Bucks that 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 to release himself from the perilous police career that had been chosen for him, he takes time off to begin an MA in Literature. 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.

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $17.22

  Inspector Chen, lying low after a corrupt investigation that could have tainted him badly politically, has taken on part-time college studies. But when a young girl is found murdered wearing only a torn red mandarin dress, followed by another girl wearing a similar dress, the possibility of a serial killer in Shanghai lures Chen back to work. Struggling with a breakdown under the combined pressure of his academic deadlines and the case, he must try to stop the killer under the most unexpected circumstances.

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  Paperback
  2009

  $22.75