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Ghost Hero
Hardcover, 325 pages, St Martins Pr, List Price: $25.99 | purchase
Book Summary
Investigating a rumor about new paintings by a famous contemporary Chinese artist who has been dead for 20 years, private investigator Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, discover that a new client is not who he claims to be.
Genres:
This book is about:
- Art, Chinese,
- Smith, Bill (Fictitious character),
- Chin, Lydia (Fictitious character),
- Chinese Americans,
- Private investigators,
- New York,
- New York (State),
- Mystery fiction,
- Fiction
NPR stories about Ghost Hero
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Sherlockian Mysteries That Will Keep You Tied Up
Private investigators Lydia Chin and Bill Smith operate in a world far removed from Holmes' gaslit London: most of their adventures take place in New York City's Chinatown. But as Ghost Hero, the 11th novel in S.J. Rozan's terrific series, attests, the "elementary" detective fiction plot has remained pretty much unchanged. Ghost Hero propels Lydia and Bill on an insider tour of the contemporary Chinese art scene. This cram course in Art Appreciation 101 begins when a shifty... more
—Maureen Corrigan
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