The Murder of Mr. Ma

By John Shen Yen Nee, SJ Rozan, S. J. Rozan, et al.

Book Overview

For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a powerhouse duo of authors is at once comfortingly familiar and tantalizingly new.

Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants.

London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his quiet life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes. Dee has come to London to investigate the murder of a man he'd known during World War I when serving with the Chinese Labour Corps. No sooner has Dee interviewed the grieving widow than another dead body turns up. Then another. All stabbed to death with a butterfly sword. Will Dee and Lao be able to connect the threads of the murders--or are they next in line as victims?

Blending traditional gong'an crime fiction with the most iconic aspects of the Sherlock Holmes canon, Dee and Lao's first adventure is as thrilling and visual as an action film, as imaginative and transportive as a timeless classic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164129549X
• ISBN13: 9781641295499
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Soho Crime
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

I'm not sure what kept me from getting into this book.

First of all, I love Rozan's Chin/Smith series. I love learning more about cultural ethnicity. Somehow the descriptions of the food & fighting stances & the back history of the Chinese characters almost made the storyline choppy to me. I' glad that I read to the author interviews at the end and learned that Lao She and Judge Dee were real people.