The Speaker of Mandarin - Ruth Rendell

...all, someone apparently falls off the boat during a river tour, then Wexford keeps bumping into a little Chinese lady with bound feet, who apparently has something to tell him. When he returns to the UK, he begins to think that it was all a hallucination due to too much green tea. Then one of his fellow passengers from China is found murdered and Wexford is forced to investigate - could the death be linked to something that happened when they were ...
...me for more than just the fact that it is a Wexford novel - it is based, albeit partially, in China, where I spent a good part of my life. As such, it is interesting to hear the author's take on travelling in China, particularly back in the early eighties when the book is written. To hear the book read by Wexford himself, or at least the actor who plays him - George Baker - is an added advantage for me. I have listened to audio books before going ...

sunmeilan 29.03.2008 · Read full review
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