Inspector Zhang Mysteries - The Collection

by Stephen Leather

Eight short stories featuring detective Inspector Zhang from Singapore. They are all locked room mysteries to test the detective's deductive powers to the full.Crimes are rare in Singapore, but when there's one 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!The eight stories are - Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish, Inspector Zhang And The Dead Thai Gangster, Inspector Zhang And The Falling Woman,Inspector Zhang And The Hotel Guest, Inspector Zhang And The Disappearing Drugs, Inspector Zhang And The Perfect Alibi,Inspector Zhang And The Island Of The Dead, and Inspector Zhang Goes To Harrogate.

Plus another mystery, which is solved by a very special cat. Wait, what?

319 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Stephen Leather was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series. For much of 2011 his self-published eBooks - including The Bestseller, The Basement, Once Bitten and Dreamer's Cat - dominated the UK eBook bestseller lists and sold more than half a million copies. The Basement topped the Kindle charts in the UK and the US, and in total he has sold more than two million eBooks. His bestselling book The Chinaman was filmed as The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan and grossing more than $100 million.

Reviews

[Phillip Colver · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Refreshing stories by Stephen Leathers entailing short stories about a genius inspector who thinks outside the box. Great easy reads.

[Eric J. Gates · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally in one place, all four of the Inspector Zhang mysteries can be found in this collection. I am a fan of Stephen Leather's work and looked forward to reading these short detective mysteries. The author made the collection available free over the holidays and I jumped at the opportunity.

Inspector Zhang is very different from his iconic Spider character, being a detective on the Singapore police force. He is also a fan of the great detective novels, with a noted predilection for Agatha Christie's Poirot. This collection pits his own little grey cells against four distinct mysteries that challenge the reader to figure out the murderers before the denouement - I managed to 'solve' (read guess) the right result twice. Great fun! Written in Stephen Leather's inimitable style and pace. More please!

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short & sweet mysteries--they're like episodes of Law and Order, or CSI, but make more sense.

Recommended.