Commissioner Chen's second case: Together with an attractive American colleague, the poetic Chinese commissioner is on the trail of a Triad murder and a missing pregnant woman. What fate befell this young woman, who was sent to the countryside for re-education during the Cultural Revolution? The mystery of the male corpse in a white silk pajama and the missing former Red Guard, whose husband is a key witness in a trial in New York, takes the reader from Qiu's novel into the tension-filled world of modern China. A must-read for all crime fiction fans, as "with Qiu Xiaolong, modern Chinese crime literature begins.".