num_pages: 275
description: It's a long way from the cramped, dreary sweatshops where Lydia Chin's mother once sewed for the heady world of fashion. But in New York City, worlds collide. And a petite, Chinese-American P.I. can still rub shoulders with the rich, the poor, the beautiful, and the depraved. Elegant, porcelain-skinned Genna Jing is sure her latest designs are worth a fortune. That's why she is willing to pay the fifty grand being demanded by the person who stole her design book. But when Lydia--backed by her partner Bill Smith--makes the drop, everything goes wrong. Soon a simple case of high-fashion extortion leads Lydia and Bill from Chinatown to Park Avenue, and from murder to more money: a million dollars in exchange for a missing man's life... 
language: English
title: Mandarin Plaid
titlecomplete: Mandarin Plaid (Lydia Chin & Bill Smith, #3)
characters: Chin Yong-Yun, Lydia Chin, Genna Jing, John Ryan, Bill Smith
genres: Hard Boiled, Asian Literature, Mystery, Fiction, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 986
places: Manhattan, New York City, New York
series: Lydia Chin & Bill Smith
publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks