Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt & Ellen Yeung. 8vo 8 1/2"x 5 3/8" gray cloth w/ silver lettering on spine; red endpapers; 142 pgs; illus dust jacket w/ $14.95 on front flap, author photo by H.Y. David Hsu at back; somewhat controversial fiction inspired by '30's Shanghai homicide; the author, Shih Shu-tuan, is from Taiwan. jacket design by David Bullen w/ art by Laurie Anderson.