Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American P.I. who lives in New York City's Chinatown, is hired for a simple job. She's to deliver the ransom for a set of stolen sketches that comprise the inaugural collection of fashion designer Genna Jing and her new label, Mandarin Plaid. But everything on this simple job goes terribly wrong. The ransom is stolen out from under Lydia, her sometimes partner, Bill Smith, is arrested, and just as she is trying to sort out exactly what is really going on, the client fires her. Lydia, however, isn't ...
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Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American P.I. who lives in New York City's Chinatown, is hired for a simple job. She's to deliver the ransom for a set of stolen sketches that comprise the inaugural collection of fashion designer Genna Jing and her new label, Mandarin Plaid. But everything on this simple job goes terribly wrong. The ransom is stolen out from under Lydia, her sometimes partner, Bill Smith, is arrested, and just as she is trying to sort out exactly what is really going on, the client fires her. Lydia, however, isn't about to just let it go. Determined to find answers, and preserve her pride, Lydia and Bill follow a confusing trail that leads from the sweatshops of Chinatown to the drawing rooms of Manhattan's wealthy Upper East Side and into a dark underworld of prostitution, drugs, and murder. All they need to uncover is: who stole the sketches, who hijacked the ransom payment, and, most important, who would kill to keep them from the truth.
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Add this copy of Mandarin Plaid: a Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery to cart. $2.44, good condition, Sold by Zoom Books East rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Glendale Heights, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by St Martins Pr.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x1x8; Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 275 pages, black boards. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover edition with minor shelf wear, text paper cream white; binding tight. In a very good, slightly edge-worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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Rozan is simply one of the best mystery writers around. She doesn't repeat herself and each book in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series takes on a different aspect of either Chinese-American life, often in Chinatown (Chin's cases) or life anywhere in the U.S. (Bill's). This deals with New York's fashion industry. The patter between the two P.I.'s is a delight.
