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U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often put in charge of politically sensitive cases. Having recently ruffled more than a few official feathers, when he is asked to look into a sensitive corruption case he takes immediate action-he goes on leave from work. But while on vacation, the body of a murdered young woman is found in a highly trafficked area and the only notable aspect is that she was redressed in a red mandarin dress. When a second body appears, this time in the People's Park, also in precisely the same kind of red mandarin dress, the newspapers start screaming that Shanghai is being stalked by its first sexual serial killer. With the Party anxious to resolve the murders quickly, Chen finds himself in the midst of his most potentially dangerous and sensitive case to date. Fine, first edition, first printing, in near-fine (inside upper back flap crease, else fine)… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chinese expatriate Qiu's gripping fourth Inspector Chen novel (after 2004's When Red Is Black) captures an honest detective's struggle to be true to his professional ideals under a repressive regime. The Communist Party leadership appears to be vigorously investigating rampant corruption among the profligate power elite during China's economic reforms of the recent past. After the head of the Fujian special case squad is murdered in sordid circumstances, Chen Cao of the Shanghai police bureau discovers that the dead man had been probing a wealthy businessman, Xing Xing, who fled to the United States to escape prosecution. Chen himself is then given the highest authority to carry on the investigation, which takes him to the U.S., but he soon realizes he's not meant to succeed. Chen stands in a class with Martin Cruz Smith's… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee. Gao Xingjian, author of the novels SOUL MOUNTAIN, ONE'S MAN'S BIBLE, and a book of plays, THE OTHER SHORE, among other works, is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As new, unread copy, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. L124