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S. J Rozan
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English
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The world of fashion is the setting for this mystery starring Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American PI in New York, hired to ransom some stolen designer sketches. When she arrives at the rendezvous she is shot at and robbed. The hunt for her attacker takes her from sweatshops to fashionable drawing rooms.
2) Stone quarry
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Series
Lydia Chin/Bill Smith novels volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
PI Bill Smith is hired by a lady farmer in upstate New York to recover paintings, the theft of which she does not want to report to police. The probe leads Smith to a murder. By the author of A Bitter Feast.
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Lydia Chin/Bill Smith novels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
Description
PIs Bill Smith and Lydia Chin go undercover to investigate suspicious deaths on a construction site in New York City, including those of a crane operator and a cement mixer. Smith is posing as a mason, Lydia as a secretary in the trailer.
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Lydia Chin/Bill Smith novels volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Smith, Chinese-American private investigator Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that involves tracking down a valuable brooch, the Shanghai Moon, which disappeared during WWII.
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Series
Lydia Chin/Bill Smith novels volume 14
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The death of Chinatown's most powerful mogul, a powerful Chinatown crime boss, thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, murder, and real estate scandal in this new mystery by the award winning novelist S. J. Rozan. Choi has left the Tong headquarters building to his niece, who hires Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, to accompany her to inspect it. The building is at the center of a tug-of-war between...
6) Paper son
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Series
Lydia Chin/Bill Smith novels volume 12
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Informed that an unknown cousin is in jail, Chinese-American private detective Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, travel to the Mississippi Delta, where they confront river-levee disputes, computer scams, and questions about her cousin's innocence.
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Series
Lydia Chin/Bill Smith novels volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Joining the company of Sue Grafton, Jonathan Kellerman, and Patricia Cornwell, Shamus Award-winner S.J. Rozan now owns a coveted Anthony Award for Best Novel for her No Colder Place. The Washington Post has called her Bill Smith/Lydia Chin novels...a series to watch for....Booklist deemed Rozan....a major figure in contemporary mystery fiction...Now it's your turn--to discover one of fiction's major voices and to fall in love with a mystery of evocative...
8) On the line
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Series
Lydia Chin/Bill Smith novels volume 10
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
Description
Receiving a sinister phone call informing him that his sometime partner, Lydia Chin, has been abducted, private investigator Bill Smith is forced to participate in a psychologically brutal cat-and-mouse game during which he is framed for a murder.
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Blackstone Publishing
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English
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Lydia Chin is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected figures in Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple task. Lydia, along with her professional partner, Bill Smith, is to fly to Hong Kong to deliver a family heirloom to the young grandson of a recently deceased colleague of Grandfather Gao. But before they can deliver the heirloom, the grandson is kidnapped and two separate ransom demands are made.
10) Ghost Hero
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
American-Born Chinese P.I. Lydia Chin is called in on what appears to be a simple case. Jeff Dunbar, art world insider, wants her to track down a rumor. Contemporary Chinese painting is sizzling hot on the art scene and no one is hotter than Chau Chun, known as the Ghost Hero. A talented and celebrated ink painter, Chau's highly-prized work mixes classical forms and modern political commentary. The rumor of new paintings by Chau is shaking up the...
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English
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In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
14) Inherit the dead
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Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful daughter, Angelina. But as Christo digs deeper, he discovers there's much more to the lovely "Angel" than meets the eye. In an inventive storytelling approach, each writer brings his or her distinctive voice to a chapter of...
15) Dangerous women
Publisher
Mysterious
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short tales about dangerous women, written by top suspense authors.
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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Discover dark mysteries nestled in every borough of the Big Apple in this collection of five noir short story anthologies.
New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set collects the five NYC borough installments in our award-winning Akashic Noir Series into a single e-book edition: Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin, Manhattan Noir, edited by Lawrence Block, Bronx Noir, edited by S.J. Rozan, Queens Noir,...
New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set collects the five NYC borough installments in our award-winning Akashic Noir Series into a single e-book edition: Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin, Manhattan Noir, edited by Lawrence Block, Bronx Noir, edited by S.J. Rozan, Queens Noir,...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Language
English
Description
Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In "Third Party," Jay McInerney takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night with a party girl built for speed and sin..."Rendezvous," Nelson DeMille's first short story in twenty-five years, plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the bloodiest scourge of this man's army is no...