Review: Breaking open the locked door mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2012
I loved this short story about a Detective Inspector attached to the Singapore Police Force who fancies himself as the next Sherlock Holmes.  His female Watson is young Sergeant Lee, a habitual note-taker, who's not too sure that deductive reasoning should take the place of good old forensic science.The two are called to the upscale hotel room of an American businessman who had been found stabbed to death in his locked room.  Surveillance cameras show that he had a visit from a "professional" early in the evening, and telephone records have him speaking with his wife shortly after that, but someone somehow managed to kill him by the time his room service order arrived.Ignoring Sgt. Lee's pleas for forensics to be summoned, Detective Inspector Zhang is unwilling to give up the challenge of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to solve a locked-room murder, and the rest of the story has him going through the possibilities one by one.Short, funny and immensely entertaining, and I look forward to reading more from this author.Amanda Richards, January 3, 2012