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The Shanghai Murders

Zhong Fong is a young and ambitious homicide detective in modern Shanghai. His actress wife is rehearsing the leading role in a Chinese production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Assigned to the Dim Sum killings, a grisly series of murders, the young detective is tormented by doubts about his wife's love, and constant frustration in his investigation from his superiors. Inevitably, the various events converge in a heart-wrenching climax that leaves their lives changed forever.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 307
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-312-18175-8
  • EAN
  • 9780312181758
  • Genres
  • mystery, china, crime
  • Release date
  • 1998