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1) Paper son
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"The Most Southern Place on Earth: that's what they call the Mississippi Delta. It's not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private detective from Chinatown, NYC, ever thought she'd have reason to go. But when her mother tells her a cousin Lydia didn't know she had is in jail in Clarksdale, Mississippi - and that Lydia has to rush down south and get him out - Lydia finds herself rolling down Highway 61 with Bill Smith, her partner, behind...
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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...
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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,...
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The death of a powerful Chinatown crime boss thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, subterfuge, murder, and--because this is New York City--real estate in this new mystery by Edgar Award-winning novelist S. J. Rozan. 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...
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"Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American private investigator in her late twenties, is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected figures in New York City's Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple task. Lydia, along with her professional partner Bill Smith, is to fly to Hong Kong to deliver a family heirloom to the young grandson of a recently deceased colleague of Grandfather Gao. They arrive in Hong Kong safely, but before they can deliver the...
7) On the line
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Receiving a sinister phone call informing him that his sometime partner, Lydia Chin, has been abducted, private investigator Bill Smith is forced to participate in a psychologically brutal cat-and-mouse game during which he is framed for a murder.
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Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Smith, Chinese-American private investigator Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that involves tracking down a valuable brooch, the Shanghai Moon, which disappeared during WWII--Novelist.
10) A bitter feast
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St. Martin's Press
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1998.
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As she investigates four missing waiters in New York's Chinatown, PI Lydia Chin stumbles on a racket involving the smuggling of illegal immigrants. She also finds evidence of the smuggling of dissidents out of China on behalf of the U.S. government.
11) Stone quarry
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St. Martin's Minotaur
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1999.
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PI Bill Smith is hired by a lady farmer in upstate New York to recover paintings, the theft of which she does not want to report to police. The probe leads Smith to a murder. By the author of A Bitter Feast.
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