A review by margaretefg
The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong

3.0

This time, Inspector Chen has to solve a puzzle relating to something potentially damaging to Mao's reputation, a case an important Party official wants him to undertake. He's not sure whether he supports the Party's line, and then there are all kinds of tangled connections...to Mao, to Shanghai in the 30s, to real estate deals in the New China and, inevitably, to the Cultural Revolution. Chen puzzles through the case (and sort of addresses his love life or lack thereof) with his usual wry attitude and plenty of quotations from poetry.