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A short story featuring Detective Song Ren, an honourable man trying to navigate the murky depths of Beijing's dark underbelly. One day, in the sweltering heat of a Beijing summer, a young woman comes to the Sherlock Holmes Investigation Agency and pleads with Detective Song to help her. She claims that her own parents have poisoned her and sold her identity. Now she is on the run, accused of murder. Detective Song investigates, and uncovers a web of deception such as he has rarely seen... Detective Song Ren also features in two full length novels, The Pool of Unease, and The Slaughter Pavilion. Both are available in both print and as e-books.
30 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 12, 2013
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January 27, 2017
A short story who-dun-it. I'm of two minds about this story... no probably just one mind. To me it was very obvious who the killer was, from the very beginning of the story. The other part of me does not like this story because while the author did study Chinese, at Leeds University even, and live in China it just reeks of exotifing and fetishizing Asian people. There are two other books featuring the character of Detective Song Ren, but they are luckily out of print.
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