Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries
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China trade , Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 1
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2) Concourse
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St. Martin's Press
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1995.
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First edition.
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280 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Mandarin plaid , Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 3
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No colder place , Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 4
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A bitter feast , Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 5
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Stone quarry , Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 6
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Reflecting the sky , Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 7
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Chinese-American PI Lydia Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that crosses continents, cultures, and decades. In Shanghai, excavation has unearthed a cache of European jewelry dating back to World War II. The jewelry was immediately stolen by a Chinese official who fled to New York City. Hired by a lawyer specializing in the recovery of Holocaust assets, Chin and Pilarsky are to find any and all leads to the missing...
10) On the Line
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Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 10
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English
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PI Bill Smith is sent on a high-stakes chase when an electronically modified voice on his cell phone informs him that Lydia Chin, his occasional partner, has been kidnapped. Now, if Bill wants to keep Lydia alive, he'll have to play an elaborate game of the kidnapper's devising. The first move sends him to an abandoned building, where Bill finds the corpse of a small Chinese woman dressed like Lydia and the building being rapidly surrounded by police....
11) Ghost Hero
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Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 11
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English
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American-Born Chinese P.I. Lydia Chin is called in on what appears to be a simple case. Jeff Dunbar, art world insider, wants her to track down a rumor. Contemporary Chinese painting is sizzling hot on the art scene and no one is hotter than Chau Chun, known as the Ghost Hero. A talented and celebrated ink painter, Chau's highly-prized work mixes classical forms and modern political commentary. The rumor of new paintings by Chau is shaking up the...
12) Paper son
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Informed that an unknown cousin is in jail, Chinese-American private detective Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, travel to the Mississippi Delta, where they confront river-levee disputes, computer scams, and questions about her cousin's innocence.
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"In the latest mystery from S. J. Rozan, Bill Smith and Lydia Chin must track down a serial killer stalking women in New York's contemporary art scene. Former client Sam Tabor, just out of Greenhaven after a five-year homicide stint, comes to Bill Smith with a strange request. A colossally talented painter whose parole was orchestrated by art world movers and shakers, Sam's convinced that since he's been out he's killed two women. He doesn't remember...
14) Family business
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The death of Chinatown's most powerful mogul, a powerful Chinatown crime boss, thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, murder, and real estate scandal in this new mystery by the award winning novelist S. J. Rozan. Choi has left the Tong headquarters building to his niece, who hires Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, to accompany her to inspect it. The building is at the center of a tug-of-war between...
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When the son of NYC's first female mayor disappears, PI Bill Smith and his partner, Lydia Chin, are called in the find the missing 15-year-old but are faced with more questions than answers, they turn to the only contacts who could help: the neighborhood leaders who are the real "mayors" of NY.
In January, New York City inaugurates its first female mayor. In April, her son disappears. Called in by the mayor's chief aide to find the missing fifteen-year-old,...