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Death of a Red Heroine

โœ Scribed by Qiu, Xiaolong


Book ID
100644475
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
260 KB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis


Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model worker, and then risk his own life and career to see that justice is done. The novel is a murder mystery infused with politics and poetry. Set in Shanghai, in the early 1990s, is a fascinating read because it sheds light on a lifestyle that is virtually unknown to western society.


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### Amazon.com Review By any standard, Inspector Chen Cao is a novelty in the world of police procedurals. A published poet and translator of American and English mystery novels, he has been assigned by the Chinese government, under Deng Xiaoping's cadre policy, to a "productive" job with the Speci