Review: This is another clever and humorous Singapore police story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 3, 2011
This is one of the four Inspector Zhang short mystery tales that amazon kindle offers for free or 99 cents. This is a 99 cent one and is well-worth the money. The somewhat humorous story takes place in Singapore where Zhang is a police detective. He enjoys detective work and has shunned a higher level position. Singapore is a country which is tightly controlled by its government. Drug sellers are executed. This story occurs after Zhang solved the "locked room mystery" in the story "Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish." (See my review of this tale.) Since he has shown his ability to solve "locked room mysteries," his superior officer ordered him to solve this one.Thirteen million dollars worth of drugs were discovered and the police wanted to find the criminal who was handling these drugs. An inspector was assigned to watch the drugs and catch the criminal when he picked them up. The inspector was a beautiful woman who had gotten her job because of her looks. The importer was told by the company or person who sent the drugs to take the ten packages to a certain apartment, remove a key from under a rug, open the apartment door, and leave the ten packages. The beautiful inspector and her team watched the apartment for seven days. No one entered or left the apartment after the importer and his assistant left the ten boxes in the room. Yet, when they opened the door at the end of seven days, the drugs were gone. This was another "locked room mystery" which Inspector Zhang solves.