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Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish (2011)

by Stephen Leather(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Three Elephants

review 1: Not many crimes are commited in the Singapore therefore when Inspector Zhang gets called onto the job of solving a murder case he is excited. There is rarely any mystery to solving a crime in the city state, however when the murder victim seems to have been killed within a locked room all that changes for Zhang. I liked Inspector Zhang's character, he has quite a quirky personality and I liked his partner Sergeant Lee. I enjoyed the deduction skills of a 'locked room' mystery.This short story was not bad, however I don't think I'll be reading any other Zhang stories. They seem a bit.. predictable.
review 2: I picked this short story up on amazon as I've been wanting to try this author for a while. I have to admit it took me a while to decide what I thought of i... moret.The character, Inspector Zhang, is quite quirky, but in a fairly stereotypical way. He reminded me a fair bit of Sherlock holmes and I think that was probably deliberate but I didn't feel like I got to know him well enough, which is often the problem with short stories. Less time for character development. I did really like this one though, but I'm a huge Sherlock fan. It managed to press the same buttons.The plot was a pretty standard who-dunnit. Nothing hugely special but still fun to read.I was a little dissapointed with the length of the story as it finished at 58% on my kindle. I don't mind there being some back matter but it seemed a little excessive that it was almost half the file and made it feel like this short was only there to get me to buy something else. If I like a story, I'll go check out more by that author anyway, I don't need 3 chapters of a completely different book to make me want more, one would have been enough, or just the list of the authors other works. less

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