Overview

SHANGHAI, 1935.Someone is Murdering People in the Most Enticing and Most Dangerous City in the World.Someone in this atmospheric, richly-woven period piece, is systematically killing people in Shanghai's notorious and popular Flowery Kingdom. And it is Inspector-Detective Sun-jin's job to track down the killer and arrest him, all at great peril to himself and to the people he loves.As Sun-jin investigates the murders, and deals with his complicated personal life, he takes us through Shanghai's contrasting and conflicting worlds of East and West - down the city's dark alleys and streets, through its Triad-controlled underworld, and into the plush private clubs of its British and American expatriates. Sun-jin shows us Shanghai at its best and at its worst - its popular nightclubs, its jazz bands, its taxi dancers, and its gambling dens, all places where money and greed thrive, human life means little, and disparate international cultures, power, and politics often collide.