Qiu Xiaolong
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Qiu Xiaolong
- 2001 Anthony-1st Novel winner
- 2001 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2001 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 22.51
Murder in Shanghai in the ‘90s presents Inspector Chen with a difficult choice.
The victim, Guan Hongying, was a National Model Worker, a celebrity of utmost probity. But perhaps her personal life was not so pristine. Inspector Chen Cao, a published poet and translator of T. S. Eliot, who has been assigned to head the Shanghai Police Bureau’s Special Case Squad, is urged by his superiors to consider the political implications of his investigation. Commissar Zhang, an old bureaucrat, doesn’t want Chen to peer under any stones. Does Chen dare to…
