Red Mandarin Dress - Qiu Xiaolong • BookLikes (ISBN:0312371071)

Red Mandarin Dress

by: Qiu Xiaolong (author)

4.50 10

Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9780312371074 (0312371071)

ASIN: 312371071

Publish date: November 27th 2007

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Pages no: 320

Edition language: English

Category:

Literature, Cultural, Mystery, Asian Literature, Asia, Crime, China

Series: Inspector Chen Cao (#5)

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Kinga's Books rated it

14 years ago

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I'm becoming softer with age. My initial reaction when I started reading this book was: What is this shit??First of all it was a thriller and NOTHING happened. Xiaolong went on instead about the main character's Literature Paper. IN DETAIL. Eventually Chinese literature archetypes were linked to the...

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What I'm reading rated it

16 years ago

http://writerlibrarian.booklikes.com What I'm reading 3.0 Red Mandarin Dress: An Inspector Chen Novel (Inspector Chen Novels)

text Red Mandarin Dress: An Inspector Chen Novel (Inspector Chen Novels)

A little above average for this series. Inspector Chen has a mid-life, mid-career, conscience crisis. Caught in between a financial scandal investigation that he doesn't want to investigate and a series of murder dubbed the "first" serial killer of Shanghai, Chen breaks down and hides behind the pre...

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