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Author
Language
English
Description
Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime always haunts him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realizes that the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery - that only by doing so will civilization be saved from...
4) Ruse
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu ... play a treacherous cat and mouse game in the labyrinthine streets of Shanghai, determined on taking back what Jin had stolen"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1985.
Language
English
Description
Set in Shanghai in the late 1970s, this novel depicts the life of Sun Yue, a woman once branded a "rightist" and now confronted with the necessity of reconciling her political convictions as she strives to forget her failed marriage, raise her daughter alone, and renew her belief in love.
6) The Mao case
Author
Series
Inspector Chen novel volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Chen investigates a young woman, the granddaughter of an actress who was once close to Mao, who may be in possession of an object that would bring dishonor to the Chairman's memory.
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.
Author
Series
Inspector Chen novel volume 1
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When a young woman renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party turns up dead in a Shanghai canal, Inspector Chen must risk his career to get to the bottom of the crime.
Author
Series
Inspector Chen novel volume 2
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Assigned to help the wife of an important witness to reach the United States safely, U.S. marshal Catharine Rohn learns that the woman has vanished, while inspector Chen reluctantly assumes the task of saving face.
10) Enigma of China
Author
Series
Inspector Chen novel volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In line for the top 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 novel volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Offered a luxury vacation near Lake Tai, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the murder investigation of a manufacturing plant director who had been accused of polluting the once-beautiful lake, a case that implicates the leader of a local ecological group.
12) Snake bite
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 5
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and taken to China, young Sherlock Holmes enjoys adventure on the high seas before encountering a puzzling case of three men bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Inspector Chen novel volume 3
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Chen is on vacation, working for a businessman about to build a vast complex in central Shanghai, but when a former Red Guard is murdered, he must return to duty to apprehend the culprit.
Author
Series
Inspector Chen novel volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Asked to take the lead in a corruption investigation in which the principal figure and his family have already fled to the U.S., Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is charged to uncover the culprit's partners-in-crime and their organization.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tale of espionage and international intrigue set in Shanghai in 1931--an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence, and betrayal filled with femmes fatales, criminals, revolutionaries, and spies.
Author
Series
Inspector Chen novel volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department finds himself caught up in a dangerous case when the bodies of two young women dressed in identical red mandarin dresses turn up, igniting fears of the city's first sexual serial killer.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a deep strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Description
Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have...
19) Dragonfly eyes
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah Mei and her grandmother suffer, but they are resourceful...
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