The speaker of Mandarin

The outer archives are busy

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Chief Inspector Wexford visits China and while an old woman with bound feet haunts him, a man is tragically drowned. Back in England he investigates the murder of one of his fellow tourists and finds himself locked in a mystery that leads back to the East. From the author of "Going Wrong".

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