Political corruption, capitalist greed and past
injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in
Shanghai. An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin
dress, she had been dumped, barely concealed, on a traffic island. The death of
a dancing girl was unpleasant but this was particularly unusual in that she had
been left openly in the centre of town. She had probably angered one of the Mr
Big Bucks that were taking over and transforming Shanghai. Inspector Chen is an
intuitive investigator, a talented poet and an honourable man on the edge of a
nervous breakdown. Desperate to find a way to release himself from the perilous
police career that had been chosen for him, he takes time off to begin an MA in
Literature. Then another girl is found dead ...With a serial killer on the
loose. Chen is pulled back to work and into his most dangerous assignment yet.
關於作者:
Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai. He was selected for
membership of the Chinese Writers'' Association and published poetry,
translations and criticism in China. He has lived in the United States since
1989. He has been the recipient of the Missouri Biennial Award, the Prairie
Schooner Readers'' Choice Award, a Yaddo and a Ford Foundation Fellowship.