Lockhart Road by Gordon John Thomson
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Overview: Hong Kong…in the sweltering month of August 1937… Lockhart Road is a street in the waterfront district of Wanchai on Hong Kong Island…a microcosm of the seamy side of Hong Kong life…a place of sexual temptations, of greed and lust, intrigue and murder… In the summer of 1937 Hong Kong is a city in turmoil, where war clouds are looming as thousands of refugees flee the war in China. The Japanese have invaded deep into China territory and this new war is threatening to spill over into Hong Kong. The privileged British expatriate community tries to stay aloof from this turmoil around them, yet it soon threatens to engulf their complacent lives too…
Inspector Paul Jericho of the Hong Kong Police leads the hunt in the seamen’s area of Wanchai for the killer of two young women, bar hostesses, who worked on the Wanchai waterfront. At first he suspects that the killer must be a violent Western seaman, but his investigation soon leads him to suspect a connection with the rich and privileged expatriate community of the Mid-levels… Paul Jericho has another more personal case to solve too: the death of his wife Susan in a hit-and-run incident six months before…
In Government House, a young code-breaker with the Secret Intelligence Service, Edith Starling, has found a way to read the coded signals between Japanese High Command in Tokyo and their rampaging army in China. Edith is leading a dangerous life, for she is sleeping with a Chinese lawyer, Michael Yip, who might also be a spy of some sort. But when her own SIS chief, Ralph Ogden, dies in mysterious circumstances, she begins to suspect that there might be a traitor inside Government House itself…
Sebastian Ride is the head of a major trading company in Hong Kong, and an inveterate womanizer who was having an affair with Susan Jericho prior to her death. His wife Gloria is drinking heavily and in suicidal mood. But Ride has worse problems when he gets into a row with his partner James Woo that ends with Woo falling to his death from a high balcony. In the climax a great typhoon strikes Hong Kong, one of the worst in Hong Kong’s history. And Paul Jericho finds himself not just fighting the elements, but also the treachery of some of his closest friends and associates…
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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