Chinese Mystery English

The new year starts with a bang in Sydney's Chinatown - and not just fireworks. While the rest of the country is celebrating, the biggest bank job in Australia's history is taking place. The press called it 'The Great Chinese Take-Away', but in those missing safety deposit boxes is something much more valuable than money. A gold key with a dragon on it. Why does the Chen family want it back so badly? What starts as a routine case soon leads Claudia Valentine into a world of ancient treasures and modern Triad killings, through the sleazy back streets and exotic oriental temples.

The Chinese Murder of Edward Watts is a Covey Jencks mystery. Covey and JayJay travel to China and then return home to deal with shady characters, spies, gangsters, and other tough customers. In an exciting last act, they solve a murder most foul.

Morning service in the quiet village church. Josie Welford, licensee of the White Hart, is daydreaming during Father Tim Martin’s sermon. The peace is shattered when a filthy Chinese youth flings himself into the church demanding sanctuary. The Church must decide whether to accede to a request that no long has legal standing or to hand Tang over to the authorities. Josie’s friend and long-term lodger, Nick Thomas, fears for the boy’s life.

Senator Barnes, pillar of Canberra's polished facade, found his final thrill at Sydney's hottest after-hours den, Lady Chatterley’s. While getting a lap dance the senator suddenly dropped dead. To make matters worse, the club manager just thought the senator had a heart attack and sent for an ambulance. It wasn’t until he was taken to ER that they realized that it was not natural causes. But by then, the private room that the senator had been using was sanitized leaving little in the way of forensic evidence. The motive? Tangled in a web of political intrigue and illicit desires; as ...

Tanis Lyle was one of those passionate women who always get their own way. Her cousin Laura hated her. Most women did. But men found her irresistible and she used them mercilessly. So when Tanis was found murdered there seemed to be any number of suspects on hand. But Miss Silver had her own suspicions....

When Denys (Dipper) DeGrace, a Toronto private investigator and sometime actor, with a fondness for Cognac and coffee, meets with Chinese community leaders to stop the mysterious grave openings of their loved ones, he didn’t bargain for the murder of a Chinese fruit vendor, death threats against a touring celebrated Chinese violinist, and an ill-fated helicopter chase over Niagara Falls.

Recon, the cyber spooks top agent, stares at the giant screens at the cyber spooks HQ, a map of the world shows endless cyber attacks shooting across the screen like bolts of lightning. It’s just another day at the office, except this day he brought his 13-year-old son Carlo along to show him around. Suddenly, a major computer virus outbreak begins with a London bank, all branches across the UK become infected, the attacks appear to come from China.

In the late 1960s, Alexander O'Dumbay, a young and successful executive working for a British shipping company in Hong Kong, leads a life filled with responsibility and little time for pleasure. One evening, seeking an escape from his hectic work routine, he wanders through the bustling streets of the city and encounters Liu, a beautiful and enigmatic Chinese actress. A passionate and unforgettable night follows, but Alexander's memory of the events is fragmented. The next morning, he discovers a mysterious tattoo with ancient Chinese characters on his back. As he tries to piece together ...

He guesses it's around 3 a.m. Gun runner and occasional smuggler Mark Hagen hears a scream through the fog. He finds a girl: young, beautiful, trouble. But as Mark Hagen himself said, 'I love trouble, angel. It makes life so much more interesting.' Before long he is hauled into a chaotic chase involving The Red Chinese and a lot of gold. From feeling he had lost everything to suddenly fighting for his life, Hagen must battle his inner demons and some truly terrifying enemies in a deadly game of power, action and murder.