Review: People will enjoy reading all of the Inspector Zhang mysteries
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2011
Amazon Kindle charges on 99 cents for this cunning and witty Singapore detective mystery. It is one of four such mysteries; one is free and the rest cost 99 cents. They are worth the money and make fun reading. Readers may want to see my reviews of the other three. In this episode, Inspector Zhang and his 24 year old female assistant are on board a Singapore plane that lands in Thailand. His commissioner telephones him requesting that he solve a murder committed on the plane before the passengers disembark the plane. He is chosen for the job not only because he is the only senior police detective present but because, as the commissioner says, he has shown an ability to solve mysteries. And this is a mystery. A Thai gangster is apparently shot on the plane in the business section but no one heard the shot. There is a bullet hole in the man's chest and the area smells like gunpowder. The business section has seven passengers; no one from the regular passengers entered the section. There are also cabin crew present. As his sergeant says, this is a crime that could not have happened (because no one heard the shot), but it did happen. The author tells us the ingenious way that Zhang unravels this case.