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Much of the action in the novel takes place in London’s East End; the Limehouse area had, since Elizabeth I, been an important port that drew sailors from around the world. By the 1800s, it had become the home to a large Chinese community, as well as to the trades of tea and opium.
Apr 2, 2024 · A thriller with bloody murders and plenty of suspects and featuring an unlikely partnership between two FBI investigators. FBI consultant Amos Decker has a lot on his mind. The huge fellow once played for the Cleveland Browns in the NFL until he received a catastrophic brain injury, leaving him with synesthesia; he sees death as electric blue.
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Apr 8, 2024 · The Murder of Mr Ma is vastly different from those, but equally entertaining. In 1924 London, Judge Dee Ren Jie – an updated version of the fictional Tang Dynasty Judge Dee – arrives on the scene to investigate the murder of a World War I colleague from the Chinese Labour Corps.
Apr 2, 2024 · Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants. London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes.
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Apr 13, 2024 · Written by John Shen Yen Nee and S. J. Rozan, this series opener introduces two Chinese men who are actual figures from China's past. Lao She and Judge Dee Ren Jie collaborate to investigate the homicide of a Chinese man.
Apr 2, 2024 · For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a powerhouse duo of authors is at once comfortingly familiar and tantalizingly new. Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants.
Apr 2, 2024 · The Murder of Mr. Ma is a masterpiece combining superb comic timing, thrilling swash-buckling fight sequences and the admirable deductive reasoning necessary to solve multiple murders of former members of the Chinese Labour Corps* who were part of a growing community of Chinese immigrants who settled in London after World War I. Paul Koh, a ...
