Death on Black Dragon River / Christopher West
1995, First Edition. London : HarperCollins. 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. Item #224559
ISBN: 0002325667
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