Inspector Singh investigates : a calamitous Chinese killing /
Flint, Shamini,
Inspector Singh investigates : a calamitous Chinese killing / Shamini Flint. - London : Piatkus, 2013. - 309 pages ; 20 cm. - Inspector Singh investigates ; 6. . - Flint, Shamini. Inspector Singh investigates ; 6. .
Inspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a bigwig at the Singapore Embassy has been bludgeoned to death in a back alley in Beijing. The Chinese security insist that he was the victim of a robbery gone wrong, but the young man's mother demands that Singapore's finest (in his own opinion) rides to the rescue. But solving a murder in a country that practices socialism 'with Chinese characteristics' is a dangerous business. And it soon becomes apparent that getting to the bottom of this calamitous killing will be his toughest case yet ...
9780749957797 (paperback)
Police--Singapore--Fiction.
Singaporeans--China--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
China--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
823/.92
Inspector Singh investigates : a calamitous Chinese killing / Shamini Flint. - London : Piatkus, 2013. - 309 pages ; 20 cm. - Inspector Singh investigates ; 6. . - Flint, Shamini. Inspector Singh investigates ; 6. .
Inspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a bigwig at the Singapore Embassy has been bludgeoned to death in a back alley in Beijing. The Chinese security insist that he was the victim of a robbery gone wrong, but the young man's mother demands that Singapore's finest (in his own opinion) rides to the rescue. But solving a murder in a country that practices socialism 'with Chinese characteristics' is a dangerous business. And it soon becomes apparent that getting to the bottom of this calamitous killing will be his toughest case yet ...
9780749957797 (paperback)
Police--Singapore--Fiction.
Singaporeans--China--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
China--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
823/.92
