The Murder of Mr. Ma

SJ Rozan, John Shen Yen Nee

eBook - 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.London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his quiet life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes. Dee has come to London to investigate the murder of a man he’d known during World War I when serving with the Chinese Labour Corps. No sooner has Dee interviewed the grieving widow than another dead body turns up. Then another. All stabbed to death with a butterfly sword.... Will Dee and Lao be able to connect the threads of the murders—or are they next in line as victims?Blending traditional gong’an crime fiction with the most iconic aspects of the Sherlock Holmes canon, Dee...

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Published
Soho Press
Language
English
Main Authors
SJ Rozan, John Shen Yen Nee
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size730 MB
ISBN9781641295505
Release Date4/2/2024
Kindle Book
ASINB0C9ZG3V7Y
Release Date4/2/2024
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781641295505
Release Date4/2/2024