Xiaolong Qiu
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
No longer a chief inspector, Chen Cao finds himself as director of the Shanghai Judicial System Reform Office. To outsiders it's a promotion, but Chen knows he's being removed from the spotlight as he's immediately placed on involuntary 'convalescence leave' to stop him interfering with any cases. However, with various high-profile crimes making headlines and fears escalating over vigilante reprisals, Chen's superiors know he must at least appear...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"Minutes before he is asked to investigate a murder involving renowned poetress and courtesan Xuanji, Judge Dee receives a cryptic note attached to a knife: 'A high-flying dragon will have something to regret!' With the warning fresh in his mind, he knows he must tread carefully for fear of upsetting those high above, or he could regret it . . ."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"Inspector Chen is excluded from a poetry case as he awaits possible disciplinary action, leaving him to reflect on his career . . . but does his past hold a clue to the poetry case? After a number of grueling cases Chief Inspector Chen is facing mounting pressure from his superiors, many of whom are concerned with where his loyalties lie. What's more, he is excluded from an investigation into an incendiary poem posted on an online forum. Wracked...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France (Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) and Germany (Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. The stories in Years of Red Dust trace the changes in modern China over fifty years-from the early days of the Communist revolution in 1949 to the modernization...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. 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 very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is kept locked at night. But there is no apparent motive....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate the triad killing in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as long as I did." For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the Communist Party and the promises made by his job. He was both a Chief Inspector of Special Investigations of the Shanghai Police Department and the deputy party secretary of the bureau. He was considered a potential rising star in the Party until, after...
Author
Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur edition.
Language
English
10) Enigma of China
Author
Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In line for the top politic position of the Shanghai Police Department, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the investigation of a major party member's son, whose suspicious suicide in the face of corruption charges forces Chen to make a difficult choice.
Author
Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Inspector Chen novel volume 10
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"Chief Inspector Chen and Detective Yu Guangming are brought into a serial murder case when the Homicide squad proves incapable of solving it. But before Chen can make a start, he is called away by a high-ranking Party member for a special assignment: to infiltrate a group of environmental activists meeting to discuss the pollution levels in the country and how to prompt the government into action.Chen knows it will be a far from simple task, especially...
13) The Mao case
Author
Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Inspector Chen Cao mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search