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Synopsis
For fans of the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a powerhouse duo of authors is at once comfortingly familiar and tantalizingly new. Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants.
London, 1924. When shy academic (and aspiring novelist) Lao She meets larger-than-life, law-defying Judge Dee Ren Jie, his life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes. Dee has come to London to investigate the murder of a man he'd known during World War I when serving with the Chinese Labour Corps. No sooner has Dee interviewed the grieving widow than another dead body turns up. Then another. All stabbed to death by a butterfly sword. Will Dee and Lao be able to connect the threads of the murders--or are they next in line as victims?
Expertly blending fact and fiction, John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan's ground-breaking collaboration is based both on classical Chinese literature and all the most iconic aspects of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Dee and Lao encounter the aristocracy and the street-child telegraph, churchmen and thieves in this clever, cinematic mystery that's as thrilling and visual as an action film, as imaginative and transporting as a timeless classic.