A serial killer is loose on the streets of Shanghai but Chen is otherwise engaged on a high-level corruption case.

With bodies appearing at the rate of one a week, Homicide are in desperate need of help.

Starring Jamie Zubairi.

Qiu Xiaolong's mysteries featuring the academic turned Special Case Squad detective, set in 1990s Shanghai.

Chen ...... Jamie Zubairi
Yu ...... Dan Li
Party Secretary Li ...... Daniel York
Detective Hong ...... Vera Chok
Jia Ming ...... Nicholas Murchie
White Cloud ...... Elizabeth Chan
Xia ...... Natasha Cowley
Comrade Fan ...... John Bowler
Kong ...... Alison Belbin
Sergeant Qi ...... Gavi Singh Chera
Shen Wenchang ...... David Sterne
Director Zhong ...... John Dougall
Hotel Manager ...... Finlay Robertson
Receptionist ...... Catriona McFarlane

Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson.

Director: Toby Swift

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. Show less