“The heiress apparent to Agatha Christie.”—Los Angeles Times Chief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of Briti

Inspector Wexford returns from a trip to China to find that murder has followed him home when a fellow tourist is shot to death.

Chief Inspector Wexford is part of a team of detection experts assembled by Scotland Yard at the request of the Chinese government. Back in England he investiga

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist