![]() At first the case seems to have no leads and Chen is willing to pass it on to another department, but when the identity of the victim is confirmed, Chen takes the case. ![]() Chen is an unusual police officer, promoted because of Communist Party politics and seemingly more interested in poetry than police work. When the body of Guan Hongying is pulled from a canal, her murder case is assigned to Chief Inspector Chen of the Shanghai special case squad. It is an English language novel from a Chinese writer who grew up in Shanghai before moving to the United States. ![]() Death of a Red Heroine mixes the traditional elements of a mystery into a political thriller and ties everything together with poetry and romance. When the chief suspect turns out to be an influential figure in the Communist Party, Chen must negotiate the dangerous waters of party politics in order to bring the killer to justice. ![]() ![]() Chief Inspector Chen is an honorable police officer tasked with solving the murder of a national celebrity. It is set in Shanghai, China in the early 1990s. Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong is a murder mystery infused with politics and poetry. ![]()
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