Author: WEST, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Death on Black Dragon River / Christopher West
Description: London : HarperCollins 1995. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 205 pages; 205p. ; 22cm. Summary: Inspector Wang and his wife take a quiet break in a village. That is. until the Party secretary. Wu. invites the new arrivals to a banquet and welcomes them fulsomely. but three days later tells them to leave. Wu is then found bludgeoned to death with a bust of Karl Marx. Review: A busman's honeymoon for Beijing's Inspector Wang and bride. The Cultural Revolution may be only a bad memory but it still poisons the air. for when local party secretary Wu is beaten to death Beijing's unflappable Inspector Wang. honeymooning in his ancestral village. uncovers a trail of corruption and betrayal leading back to those brutal times. Splendidly crafted. a convincing microcosm of the old-new China. (Kirkus UK). Genre: English fiction -- Crime & mystery.ISBN: 0002325667. Weight in Kg appr.:

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