Ruth Rendell

The Speaker of Mandarin

Chief inspector Wexford had always dreamt of visiting China, and was sure he never would. But for once he was wrong. He, a country policeman, had walked on the Great Wall, set foot on the Stone Boat in the Summer Palace, touched the columns on the Temple of Heaven . . .

But there were some things about his trip to China that Wexford could never have dreamt of. That an old woman with bound feet would haunt him from one city to the next. That a man would be tragically drowned. Or that, back in England, he would find himself investigating the murder of one of his fellow tourists . . . and locked in a mystery that always led back to the East.

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