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Death of a Red Heroine

Death of a Red Heroine

by Xiaolong Qui

  • MYSTERY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 464 PAGES

Marvelously evocative of Shanghai and tremendously informative about China's transition towards a market economy in the 1990s, Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model Worker in this award-winning debut. The series continues with A Loyal Character Dancer (CHN412), When Red Is Black (CHN411), A Case of Two Cities (CHN396), Red Mandarin Dress (CHN458) and The Mao Case (CHN539), each a portrait of modern China, offering up a tasty plot of murder, politics, food and poetry.  (CHN374, $15.95)


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