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The Chinese Jars
Published in Spanish as
Duelo en Chinatown
Spain, May 2006
The following summary has been
excerpted from the book jacket
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San Francisco, 1960. Samuel Hamilton, ad salesman for a local newspaper
and aspiring reporter, decides to investigate a suspicious death:
Reginald Rockwood III, someone that he'd known from the Camelot bar
and who is supposedly a millionaire, has just been run over by a bus.
Intrigued by Reginald's peculiar life and the shady circumstances
surrounding his death, Samuel, with the help of his friend Melba,
unravels bit by bit a complex plot whose epicenter is located in
Mister Song's Many Chinese Herbs store in Chinatown. Mr. Song is a
very powerful man in his neighborhood, and his ancient Chinese vessels
are a safe place for many of its residents to deposit their money and
documents. The trafficking of Chinese art and antiquities, disreputable
businessman, crimes and femme fatales all appear in this novel set in
San Francisco's mythic Chinatown, which the author knows perfectly and
recreates with a master hand.
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International Editions
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Germany, 2007
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Portugal, 2007
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Brazil, 2008
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Poland, 2007
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Romania, 2007
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Holland, 2008
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Italy, 2009
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France, 2010
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