Review: Inspector Zhang - The old-fashioned Crime Investigator ...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2012
Recently I have made a very nice, new acquaintance: Detective Inspector Zhang, Singapura Police Force. He is a well-educated, polite gentleman of the old-fashioned kind.And he resolves his crimes - always a closed-room one - the way that clearly reminds me of Monsieur Poirot - whom he admits to adore ...Effective, with his female sidekick Sergeant Lee, he strikes when the culprit feels himself yet on the sure side.And he makes it with the help of 'ze small grey zells'.This time, returning from the candle-lobster-and-champagne dinner in honour of thier 30th anniversary of matrimony Detective Inspector Shang and his beloved wife are the testimonies of a young woman's suicide jump down from the 10th floor of a building.It seems a open-and-shut case until, yes until the coroner comes with a very but very very big surprise:Buy it, read it - it's worth that cup of coffee that costs!In addition there's the beginning ofBangkok Bob and The Missing Mormon- a Bangkok based gumshoe crime I recently read and reviewed, too.Stephen Leather is THE great Britisch contemporary thriller writer! Before he began to write full-time in 1992, he was for over 10 Years a journalist who wrote for 'The Times, 'The Daily Mail' and the 'South China Morning Post' in Hongkong. He is also valued one of the most acclaimed connaisseurs of the Far East and the author of numerous bestsellers all around the globe.