Qiu Xiaolong
Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and, since 1988, has lived in St. Louis, Missouri. A poet and a translator, he has an MA and a Ph.D. from Washington University. He is the author of several previous novels featuring Inspector Chen, including the award-winning Death of a Red Heroine and A Case of Two Cities.
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Shanghai Redemption
Inspector Chen Cao
Qiu Xiaolong
St. Martin's Press
Minotaur Books
For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the Communist Party and the promises made by his job. He was both a Chief Inspector of Special Investigations of the Shanghai Police Department...
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Enigma of China
Inspector Chen Cao
Qiu Xiaolong
St. Martin's Press
Minotaur Books
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is in an unusual situation—a poet by training and inclination, he was assigned by the party to the Police Department after he graduated...
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Don't Cry, Tai Lake
Inspector Chen Cao
Qiu Xiaolong
St. Martin's Press
Minotaur Books
"Dark, gorgeous…feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two Cities
In Don't Cry, Tai Lake...
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Years of Red Dust
Qiu Xiaolong
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France (Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) and...
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The Mao Case
Inspector Chen Cao
Qiu Xiaolong
St. Martin's Press
Minotaur Books
Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often assigned cases considered politically "sensitive," and now the Minister of Public Security insists that Chen personally take on...
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Red Mandarin Dress
Inspector Chen Cao
Qiu Xiaolong
St. Martin's Press
Minotaur Books
A serial killer is stalking the young women of Shanghai. The killer's calling card is to leave the victims' bodies in well trafficked locations, each of them redressed in a red mandarin dress. With...
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A Case of Two Cities
Inspector Chen Cao
Qiu Xiaolong
St. Martin's Press
Minotaur Books
Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is assigned a high-profile anti-corruption case, one in which the principal figure has long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach...
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