Review: Humorous and clever tale
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 3, 2011
Amazon Kindle offers four Inspector Zhang short mystery tales for free or 99 cents. This is the free one. The somewhat humorous story takes place in Singapore where Zhang is a police detective. Singapore is a country which is tightly controlled by its government. Murderers are executed. There has only been one serial killer in its history.An American is killed in a five star hotel and Zhang is joyous. Few police officers have an opportunity to investigate murders in Singapore where no more than one occurs in a year. This murder is even more interesting because it is a "locked room mystery." The proven facts are these: At 8:30 the American entered his room with a prostitute who left at 9:30. At 9:36 the American ordered room service. At 9:45 he spoke with his wife for about five minutes. At 9:59 the waiter came with the room service food and found him dead. The door and windows were locked. No weapon was found in the room. The outside of the room was monitored by TV and no one entered after 8:30 other than the prostitute and the waiter. Zhang expounds at length about the seven ways that "locked room mysteries" can be committed and he delightfully solves this case.