All the tears in China / Sulari Gentill.
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TextPublisher: Neutral Bay, N.S.W. : Pantera Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 370 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925700053 (paperback)Subject(s): Sinclair, Rowland, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | 1900-1999 | Detective and mystery stories | Historical fiction | Businessmen -- China -- Shanghai -- Fiction | Expatriate artists -- China -- Shanghai -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Australian fiction -- 21st century | Murder -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Expatriate artists -- Fiction | Businesspeople -- Fiction | Businesspeople | Expatriate artists | Murder | Nazis | Nazis -- Fiction | Australia -- Fiction | Shanghai (China) -- Fiction | China -- Nineteen thirties -- Fiction | Shanghai (China) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | China -- ShanghaiGenre/Form: Crime -- Adult fiction -- Print | Historical fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction | Historical fiction | Australian fiction -- 21st century | Australian fiction -- 21st century | Detective and mystery stories | Historical fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery stories | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | History. | Historical fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Australian fiction DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Shanghai in 1935 is a 20th century Babylon, an expatriate playground where fortunes are made and lost, where East and West collide, and the stakes include life itself. Into this cultural melting pot, Rowland Sinclair arrives from Sydney to represent his brother at international wool negotiations. The black sheep of the family, Rowland is under strict instructions to commit to nothing - but a brutal murder makes that impossible. As suspicion falls on him, Rowland enters a desperate bid to find answers in a city ruled by taipans and tycoons, where politics and vice are entwined with commerce, and where the only people he can truly trust are an artist, a poet and a free-spirited sculptress. All the Tears in China throws a classic murder mystery into a glitzy, glamorous, tawdry and dangerous world, entrancing both new and old readers.
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Shanghai in 1935 is a 20th century Babylon, an expatriate playground where fortunes are made and lost, where East and West collide, and the stakes include life itself. Into this cultural melting pot, Rowland Sinclair arrives from Sydney to represent his brother at international wool negotiations. The black sheep of the family, Rowland is under strict instructions to commit to nothing - but a brutal murder makes that impossible. As suspicion falls on him, Rowland enters a desperate bid to find answers in a city ruled by taipans and tycoons, where politics and vice are entwined with commerce, and where the only people he can truly trust are an artist, a poet and a free-spirited sculptress. All the Tears in China throws a classic murder mystery into a glitzy, glamorous, tawdry and dangerous world, entrancing both new and old readers.
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