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When Red Is Black

by Qiu Xiaolong ...

Narrated by David Shih ...

Series series Inspector Chen
Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is
... Read more

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Death of a Red Heroine

by Qiu Xiaolong ...

Narrated by David Shih ...

Series series Inspector Chen
Unabridged

16 hours 55 min

Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award–winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that ... Read more

$21.99 USD

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Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award–winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that
... Read more

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A Loyal Character Dancer

by Qiu Xiaolong ...

Narrated by David Shih ...

Series series Inspector Chen
Unabridged

12 hours 19 min

Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role
... Read more

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Bamboo and Blood

by James Church ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Inspector O Novels
Unabridged

10 hours 32 min

The critically acclaimed A Corpse in the Koryo brought readers into the enigmatic workings of North Korean intelligence with the introduction of a new kind of detective—the mysterious Inspector O. In the follow-up, Hidden Moon, O threaded his way through the minefield of North Korean ministries into a larger conspiracy he was never supposed to touch.Now the inspector returns.In the winter of 1997, ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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The critically acclaimed A Corpse in the Koryo brought readers into the enigmatic workings of North Korean intelligence with the introduction of a new kind of detective—the mysterious Inspector O. In the follow-up, Hidden Moon, O threaded his way through the minefield of North Korean ministries into a larger conspiracy he was never supposed to touch.Now the inspector returns.In the winter of 1997,
... Read more

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A Corpse in the Koryo

by James Church ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Inspector O Novels
Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south.These seen simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department's turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal and death. North Korea's leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old ... Read more

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Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south.These seen simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department's turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal and death. North Korea's leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old
... Read more

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Murder in Canton

A Judge Dee Mystery

by Robert van Gulik ...

Narrated by Peter Kim ...

Series series Judge Dee Mysteries
Unabridged

7 hours 16 min

Set during the T'ang dynasty, the Judge Dee Mysteries feature a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China.Murder in Canton takes place in the year 680, as Judge Dee, recently promoted to lord chief justice, is sent incognito to Canton to ... Read more

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Set during the T'ang dynasty, the Judge Dee Mysteries feature a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China.Murder in Canton takes place in the year 680, as Judge Dee, recently promoted to lord chief justice, is sent incognito to Canton to
... Read more

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The Gentleman from Japan

by James Church ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

Series Audiobook 6 - The Inspector O Novels
Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

Under the guise of machinery for making dumplings, a Spanish factory near Barcelona is secretly producing a key component in the production of nuclear weapons. When information finds its way to the inboxes of Western intelligence agencies that this “dumpling maker” is meant for North Korea, orders go out that the shipment must be stopped. Either the machine must be disabled while still in the ... Read more

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Under the guise of machinery for making dumplings, a Spanish factory near Barcelona is secretly producing a key component in the production of nuclear weapons. When information finds its way to the inboxes of Western intelligence agencies that this “dumpling maker” is meant for North Korea, orders go out that the shipment must be stopped. Either the machine must be disabled while still in the
... Read more

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People Who Walk in Darkness

by Stuart M. Kaminsky ...

Narrated by Daniel Oreskes ...

Series Audiobook 15 - The Inspector Rostnikov Series
Unabridged

7 hours 52 min

Inspector Rostnikov is a Russian bear of a man, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Russia. Known as "The Washtub," Rostnikov is one of the most engaging and relevant characters in crime fiction, a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing (that is, disintegrating) Russia. Surviving pogroms and politburos, he has solved crimes, mostly in spite of ... Read more

$21.99 USD

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Inspector Rostnikov is a Russian bear of a man, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Russia. Known as "The Washtub," Rostnikov is one of the most engaging and relevant characters in crime fiction, a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing (that is, disintegrating) Russia. Surviving pogroms and politburos, he has solved crimes, mostly in spite of
... Read more

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The Man with the Baltic Stare

by James Church ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

Series Audiobook 4 - The Inspector O Novels
Unabridged

9 hours 5 min

From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes another riveting novel set in the mysterious world of North Korea.Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating—very quietly—to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires that Inspector ... Read more

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From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes another riveting novel set in the mysterious world of North Korea.Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating—very quietly—to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires that Inspector
... Read more

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Curse of the Pogo Stick

by Colin Cotterill ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Series Audiobook 5 - The Dr. Siri Paiboun Series
Unabridged

5 hours 40 min

In Vientiane, Laos, a booby-trapped corpse intended for Dr. Siri, the national coroner, has been delivered to the morgue. In his absence, only Nurse Dtui’s intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors, and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siri’s fiancée.On his way back from a Communist party meeting in the north, Dr. Siri is kidnapped by seven female Hmong villagers under the direction ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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In Vientiane, Laos, a booby-trapped corpse intended for Dr. Siri, the national coroner, has been delivered to the morgue. In his absence, only Nurse Dtui’s intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors, and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siri’s fiancée.On his way back from a Communist party meeting in the north, Dr. Siri is kidnapped by seven female Hmong villagers under the direction
... Read more

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Slash and Burn

by Colin Cotterill ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Series Audiobook 8 - The Dr. Siri Paiboun Series
Unabridged

8 hours 12 min

Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he’s tired of being Laos’ national coroner—a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he’s pushing eighty and wants to spend some time with his wife before his untimely death, which has been predicted by the local transvestite fortune teller. But retirement is not in the cards for Dr. Siri after ... Read more

$16.99 USD

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Dr. Siri might finally be allowed to retire (again). Although he loves his two morgue assistants, he’s tired of being Laos’ national coroner—a job he never wanted in the first place. Plus, he’s pushing eighty and wants to spend some time with his wife before his untimely death, which has been predicted by the local transvestite fortune teller. But retirement is not in the cards for Dr. Siri after
... Read more

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The Willow Pattern

A Judge Dee Mystery

by Robert van Gulik ...

Narrated by Peter Kim ...

Series series Judge Dee Mysteries
Unabridged

5 hours 35 min

A magistrate investigates the death of a nobleman in this historical mystery set in China's Tang Dynasty era.Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague and drought ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansion.In The Willow Pattern, the illustrious ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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A magistrate investigates the death of a nobleman in this historical mystery set in China's Tang Dynasty era.Judge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague and drought ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansion.In The Willow Pattern, the illustrious
... Read more

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