Review: Very poor writing
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2012
Singapore has been mysterious to most all westerners.  Inspector Zhang is, we are informed, a detective mastermind. The murder of Peter Wilkinson is a "locked room" mystery. This should be a good short story read. But it fails badly. The author takes way too much time and space attempting to convince the reader that the inspector really is a mastermind or, at least, a great detective. His efforts did not succeed with me. If you pay attention, which most mystery readers do, by the time the basic facts are unveiled, you know who the murderer is and that the "locked room" wasn't really a locked room after all.I would not recommend this book to anyone