The Eight Curious Cases of Inspector Zhang by Stephen Leather (MOBI)

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Crimes are rare in Singapore, but when there’s a crime that has the police baffled, it is Inspector Zhang that they turn to. From locked-room mysteries to murders disguised as suicide, Inspector Zhang is able to draw on his experience as a detective along with tricks he has learned from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. See if you can solve the crimes before the inspector the clues are there!

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Stephen Leather (Bangkok, Thailand) is one of the UK’s most successful thriller writers with numerous bestsellers in print and ebook form, and translated into more than ten languages. Before becoming a fulltime author, Leather was a journalist on newspapers such as The Times and the Daily Mail in the UK and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.

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⭐ I have read all of Stephen Leather’s Inspector Zhang books. Inspector Zhang is the Singapore version of Detective Columbo. The books are an easy read and well written. Excellent and definitely one of my favorite authors.

⭐ “Our endeavour is to be the cutting edge in crime fighting. We will be an exemplary investigation agency which is tenacious in its search for the truth to uphold justice.” ‒ Vision statement of the Singapore CID, from the Singapore Police Force websiteIn case you haven’t come across this cop on the beat before, THE EIGHT CURIOUS CASES OF INSPECTOR ZHANG by Stephen Leather introduces you to another ongoing literary hero in his active stable. He joins MI5 operative Dan “Spider” Shepherd and the private investigator of the Dark Side Jack Nightingale.Inspector Zhang is of the Singapore Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) working out of the Police Cantonment Complex on New Bridge Road.In the first of the eight chapters, Zhang complains to his faithful sidekick, Sergeant Lee, that the low crime rate in Singapore means that there are too few murders of quality to require his investigatory skills. Bummer! Then, in the remainder of the book, he proceeds to nimbly cope with a veritable crime wave.Sergeant Lee, though described as one of the CID’s most promising sergeants, appears to be nothing more than a stenographer for the taking of notes while Zhang does the heavy lifting. Her character offers little.Zhang is a great fan of those detective stories featuring Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, and the heroes of John Dickinson Carr. He dreams of a caseload just like theirs. Perhaps this says more about the author Stephen Leather than Zhang. In any case, Leather has fashioned here eight short mysteries of reasonable cleverness for his hero to solve and Lee to record in her notebook. The eight are nicely distributed in different locales, one even taking place aboard an airliner in flight ‒ a “locked room” mystery if there ever was one.As a young reader, I started out devouring all the Hardy Boys books, and then graduated to Sherlock Holmes and a smattering of Carr’s works. Finally, before drifting away from the genre, I most enjoyed following Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie pursue Fu Manchu around London’s foggy East End. (Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series is nowadays considered oh so politically incorrect because of its stereotyping of the “evil Chinaman.” So, the PC point is? I love that Fu annoys some people so much.)While I read very little in the way of detective fiction anymore (except Jack Nightingale), THE EIGHT CURIOUS CASES OF INSPECTOR ZHANG provided welcome diversion on recent flights to and from Hawaii. It certainly beat the airline’s self-adulatory magazine in the seat pocket in front of me. During the chapter “Inspector Zhang and the Dead Thai Gangster,” I kept hoping for a body to pitch out of one of the lavatories and Zhang to materialize with the drinks cart to solve the case. But, I guess he doesn’t do the Los Angeles to Honolulu run.

⭐ This Chinese detective in modern Singapore is a treat to rival the best of Sherlock Holmes. I enjoyed every one of the eight whodunits and Zhang’s flair for solving locked-room murders.My favourite is the one set in England, where homicide spoils a convention of Mystery Writers and fools the local cops. Inspector Zhang helps them unravel the impossible while discovering how ebooks shatter the traditional publishing trade.It is an added pleasure in these tales when Zhang, an admirer of the Golden Age sleuths, talks about the great whodunit authors of yesteryear.

⭐ all of these are previously released as short stories on Kindle… if you never read them, this is a good deal to have all in one. however note.. anyone who has read Inspector Zhang before… don’t buy this if you have all of the others.

⭐ The locked room mystery and impossible crime formula is alive and well in these stories. I hope the author writes more and has an opportunity to flesh out Inspector Zhang’s character. I like te chemistry between him and his wife and would like to see them solve cases abroad more.

⭐ This book is about 8 murders behind locked rooms. Inspector Zhang is very good at solving these difficult murders with his young assistant sergeant Lee.A good read ,I look forward to reading more of these locked room murders.

⭐ While I love Stephen Leather for his Spider books, this is a complete change of pace. Inspector Zhang is an inspector with the Singapore police, with a penchant for Poirot. Given the crime rate in Singapore he doesn’t get much call to use the little grey cells, but when he does he grabs it with both hands.This is a collection of 8 short stories as the inspector tries to solve some of the more unusual crimes. It’s very laid back, but jolly good fun.

⭐ Some good mystery tales in this book

⭐ Eight really good stories, cleverly written so each story is testing you to see if you get the right conclusion

⭐ The next generation Sherlock Holmes is here & Inspector Zhang has you thinking all the way through his investigation’s.If you like detective books, then don’t look further then this.Eight fantastic stories.

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