Crime & Mystery: New arrivals August 2007
Qiu Xialong: A case of two cities. € 10,30
An inspector Chen mystery
Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly-charged corruption investigation. The tentacles have spread through the police force, the civil service, the vice trade and deep into the criminal underworld.
The pricipal figure and his family have long since fled to the Unites States, beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But the network is still intact and it is only a matter of time before it becomes stronger than before. Chen is charged with uncovering those responsible, and destroying the organisation from the top down to its roots.
Gilbert Adair: The act of Roger Murgatroyd. € 12,30
The first Evadne Mount novel - an entertainment!
Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick iron bars and, naturally, there is no sign of a murderer or a murder weapon.
Fortunately (though, for the murderer, unfortunately), one of the guests is the formidable Evadne Mount, the bestselling author of countless classic whodunits. In fact, were she not its presiding sleuth, THE ACT OF ROGER MURGATROYD is exactly the type of whodunit she herself might have written.
An inspector Chen mystery
Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is summoned by an official of the Party to lead a highly-charged corruption investigation. The tentacles have spread through the police force, the civil service, the vice trade and deep into the criminal underworld.
The pricipal figure and his family have long since fled to the Unites States, beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But the network is still intact and it is only a matter of time before it becomes stronger than before. Chen is charged with uncovering those responsible, and destroying the organisation from the top down to its roots.
Gilbert Adair: The act of Roger Murgatroyd. € 12,30
The first Evadne Mount novel - an entertainment!
Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the inside, its sole window is traversed by thick iron bars and, naturally, there is no sign of a murderer or a murder weapon.
Fortunately (though, for the murderer, unfortunately), one of the guests is the formidable Evadne Mount, the bestselling author of countless classic whodunits. In fact, were she not its presiding sleuth, THE ACT OF ROGER MURGATROYD is exactly the type of whodunit she herself might have written.
MissChilli - 8. Aug, 11:53
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