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A mysterious commission has been accepted by a detective by the thousands: The case file has a photograph of a man and a woman sitting naked back-to-back. The backs of the two are stitched together as if they were a pair of wings of a butterfly. The commission leads him to Hong Kong, to the mixed-up Chungking Mansions. In the room arranged for him by his client, he accidentally discovers a large, battered suitcase. The suitcase is locked by a lock with an R. What is it really containing? A cliffside villa, a ruthless ‘tanner’, a reclusive girlfriend …… Can Yi Qianji break through the fog and get to the bottom of this case? Poet and author Wu Ang ventures boldly into crime fiction. Book One of the Detective Yi Qianji series. A brutal murder. A cryptic commission. One of China’s rare hard-boiled detective novels. A down-and-out sleuth, lost between strong liquor and the shadows of Chungking Mansions. 82

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Wu Ang was graduated from the Chinese Department of Fudan University in Shanghai and the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Social Sciences. She used to work for Sanlian Life Weekly and now lives in Beijing and Yunnan.