by Qiu Xiaolong · Mulholland Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340897560
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«When Red is Black» is the crime novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published by Mulholland Books in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Inspector Chen Cao takes on a translation job for a Triad businessman and receives a laptop, a personal assistant, and medical care for his mother. When a teacher is found murdered, Sergeant Yu investigates; a neighbor seems the only suspect, but the motive is missing. Digging into the past, Chen finds answers.
Third installment in the Inspector Chen Cao series; BBC Radio 4 adapted it as a drama series.
For readers of crime fiction and police thrillers with an interest in contemporary China.
Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese American crime novelist, poet, translator, critic, and academic. Born in Shanghai, he originally visited the United States in 1988 to write a book about T. S. Eliot, but remained in the US following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
