Death of a Red Heroine

✍ Xiaolong, Qiu 📂 Fiction 🏛 Sceptre 🌐 English ⚖ 239 KB

Contemporary Shanghai comes vividly to life in this new mystery series. 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. Qiu Xiaolong has published prizewinning poetry and criticism in China, h

✍ Xiaolong, Qiu 📂 Fiction 🏛 Sceptre 🌐 English ⚖ 229 KB

Contemporary Shanghai comes vividly to life in this new mystery series. 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. Qiu Xiaolong has published prizewinning poetry and criticism in China, h

Death of a Red Heroine

✍ Xiaolong, Qiu 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 940 KB

Death of a Red Heroine

✍ Xiaolong, Qiu 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 447 KB

Death of a Red Heroine

✍ Xiaolong, Qiu 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Wheeler Pub. 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 382 KB

### 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

Death of a Red Heroine

✍ Qiu, Xiaolong 📂 Fiction 📅 1999 🌐 English ⚖ 260 KB

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 ligh