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The Railway Conspiracy by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 April, 2025

Second in this talented team’s genre mashup, The Railway Conspiracy builds on the characters so expertly introduced in last year’s The Murder of Mr Ma. Set in London in the mid-1920s, the series’ main character is Judge Dee Ren Jie, inspired by not only on…

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Naked Shall I Return

By DavidPrestidge

6 October, 2015

Christopher Bartley introduced his craggy anti-hero Ross Duncan in Every Secret Thing, and now the chain smoking tough guy returns. He leads us on a mesmerising journey through San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1930s, where he encounters every vice he has ever heard of –…

Kindle Print Reviews

Naked Shall I Return by Christopher Bartley

By DavidPrestidge

25 August, 2015

The Bible, like Shakespeare, is always a good source of book titles. Here we have that glum fellow Job to thank. He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return.” Christopher Barley’s latest is set on the West Coast in the…

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CIS: The 20 greatest classic crime movies of all time

By crimefictionlover

12 September, 2014

Part of the joy of reading a fantastic new crime novel is to later see it turned into a film. It’s happened just about since the dawn of cinema a century or so ago – if a book sells well, it’ll reach the big screen….

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Death Money by Henry Chang

By RoughJustice

8 April, 2014

Soho Press returns with the fourth instalment featuring the New York Chinese-American police detective Jack Yu. Yu is on the way to see the department psychiatrist after being involved in a shooting from a previous case when he gets a call from the Thirty-Second precinct….

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Skulduggery

By MyBookishWays

18 December, 2012

Written by Carolyn Hart –– Skulduggery is the first of several re-issues of classic mysteries by Carolyn Hart, released by the imprint Seventh Street Books, part of the publishing house Prometheus. This story takes place in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early 80s. We meet…

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The Railway Conspiracy by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

Naked Shall I Return

Naked Shall I Return by Christopher Bartley

CIS: The 20 greatest classic crime movies of all time

Death Money by Henry Chang

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