El inspector ChenSerie

Acompañe a un perspicaz inspector de policía navegando por el complejo panorama de Shanghái, donde las tradiciones ancestrales chocan con el pulso de la vida moderna. Cada caso se desarrolla como un intrincado rompecabezas, profundamente arraigado en el rico tapiz cultural de China. Esta serie ofrece una cautivadora mezcla de misterio, exploración cultural y aguda observación de la naturaleza humana, mientras se busca la justicia a través del intelecto y la empatía.

Le inchieste dell'ispettore Chen - 1: La misteriosa morte della compagna Guan

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Le inchieste dell'ispettore Chen - 1: La misteriosa morte della compagna Guan
Xiaolong Qiu
543 páginas
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Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9781569472422 Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career—perhaps even his life—to see justice done.
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Muerte de una heroína roja
Xiaolong Qiu
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A Loyal Character Dancer
Xiaolong Qiu
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Inspector Chen’s mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate the triad killing in Shanghai’s beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn has priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a good man, and also a loyal Party member.
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When red is black
Xiaolong Qiu
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A Case of Two Cities
Xiaolong Qiu
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.
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Red Mandarin Dress
Xiaolong Qiu
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Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often put in charge of politically sensitive cases. Having recently ruffled more than a few official feathers, when he is asked to look into a sensitive corruption case he takes immediate action - he goes on leave from work. But while on vacation, the body of a murdered young woman is found in a highly trafficked area and the only notable aspect is that she was redressed in a red mandarin dress. When a second body appears, this time in the People's Park, also in precisely the same kind of red mandarin dress, the newspapers start screaming that Shanghai is being stalked by its first sexual serial killer. With the Party anxious to resolve the murders quickly, Chen finds himself in the midst of his most potentially dangerous and sensitive case to date.
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El caso Mao
Xiaolong Qiu
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Cuando aún no se ha repuesto de la noticia de que su antigua novia, Ling, se ha casado, el inspector jefe Chen Cao recibe la llamada de un ministro que le insta a encargarse, sin demora y personalmente, de una delicada investigación relacionada con el presidente Mao. Las autoridades temen que Jiao, la nieta de una actriz que mantuvo una «relación especial» con Mao y fue perseguida durante la Revolución Cultural, haya heredado algún documento que, de salir a la luz, empañe la figura de Mao, «intocable» aun décadas después de su fallecimiento. Jiao acaba de dejar un empleo mal pagado como recepcionista, se ha mudado a una lujosa vivienda y se ha integrado en un nuevo círculo de amistades que sólo anhela revivir nostálgicamente las costumbres y modas de la dorada Shanghai precomunista. Chen deberá infiltrase en el círculo, recuperar el comprometedor material –si existe– y evitar el escándalo, en un caso trepidante en el que se entrecruzan la fuerza de los mitos, la corrupción de la élite política y la historia reciente de China.
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Don´t Cry, Tai Lake
Xiaolong Qiu
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"Dark, gorgeous...feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two Cities Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party - a week's vacation at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions. Unfortunately, the once beautiful Lake Tai, renowned for its clear waters, is now covered by fetid algae, its waters polluted by toxic runoff from local manufacturing plants. Then the director of one of the manufacturing plants responsible for the pollution is murdered and the leader of the local ecological group is the primary suspect of the local police. Now Inspector Chen must tread carefully if he is to uncover the truth behind the brutal murder and find a measure of justice for both the victim and the accused.
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Enigma of China
Xiaolong Qiu
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Chief Inspector Chen Cao never had a choice about his career. A poet by training, he was assigned to the Shanghai Police Department after college. To his own surprise, he became an excellent detective, and now he's in line to take over the top political position in the department. Which is why the Party has chosen him for the investigation into the death of Zhou Keng. Zhou Keng was running the Shanghai Housing Development Committee when a number of his corrupt practices were exposed. Removed from his position and placed into detention, he apparently hanged himself while under guard. The Party is anxious to have Zhou's death declared a suicide, but the sequence of events doesn't quite add up. Now Chen will have to decide what to do - follow the party line, or seek the justice his position requires and risk angering powerful people...
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Shanghai Redemption
Xiaolong Qiu
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Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series. 'The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as long as I did.' For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the Communist Party and the demands made by his job. He was considered a rising star until, after one too many controversial cases that embarrassed powerful men, he found himself neutralised. Under the guise of a promotion, he's been stripped of his title and his influence, discredited and isolated. Soon it becomes clear that his enemies still aren't satisfied, and that someone is attempting to have him killed - quietly. Chen has been charged with the investigation into a 'Red Prince' - a high Party figure who embodies the ruthless ambition, greed and corruption that is on the rise in China. But with no power, few allies, and his own reputation and life on the line, he knows he is facing the most dangerous case of his career.
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Hold Your Breath, China
Xiaolong Qiu
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Chief Inspector Chen is assigned to investigate a group of environmental activists trying to tackle the pollution issues in China. The case is supposed to be simple, but it is complicated by Chen having history with the leader of the group. Meanwhile Detective Yu is on the trail of a serial murderer.