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Daring chases and survival on the line!

Two unlikely allies run through the cobbled streets of London in the 1920s^-these years in search of a killer who targeted Chinese immigrants.

London, 1924 When the shy scholar Lao Xie (his original character is a real person) meets the unusual Judge Di Zhengjie, his life suddenly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and survival by a hair's breadth. Dee has arrived in London to investigate the murder of a World War I-era acquaintance. He has just finished questioning the grieving widow when another corpse turns up. Then another. Every last one of them has been stabbed with a Chinese sword. Will Dee and Lao be able to tie up the threads of the murders - or are they the next victims?

The Return of Judge Di combines traditional Chinese crime fiction and the most iconic aspects of the canon of Sherlock Holmes. Di and Lao clash with aristocracy and street kids, priests and thieves in this intelligent, cinematic mystery, as thrilling and visual as an action movie, as meaningful and engrossing as a timeless classic.

The Bulgarian reader knows the character Judge D from the novels of Robert van Huylik. For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning story kicks off a series of books from a powerful duo of authors with new energy and rocking imaginations.