New on the Mystery Bookshelf during May 2016 …
A Straits Settlement by Brian Stoddart, A Superintendent Le Fanu Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Crime Wave Press
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Intrepid superintendent has been promoted to Inspector-General of Police in 1920s Madras, which proves to be more boring than he had envisaged.
Instead of pushing papers across his desk, the Le Fanu focuses on the disappearance of a senior Indian Civil Service officer and an apparently unrelated murder. As the two incidents intertwine, the world weary detective is drawn into the worlds of indentured labor recruitment and antiquities theft.
But as bureaucratic politics make his position vulnerable, his superiors send the intrepid policeman across the Bay of Bengal to pursue the cases in the Straits Settlements. Le Fanu immediately becomes embroiled in the activities of secret societies and the British colonial intelligence services. The appearance of a mysterious Chinese woman renders his professional life uncertain as he wonders anew about the British imperial future.
— A Straits Settlement by Brian Stoddart
To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for May 2016. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of May 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.
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