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Qiu Xiaolong: The Mao Case (Paperback, 2010, Minotaur Books) 2 stars

Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often assigned cases considered politically …

Despite the author being a poet, the poems are laid out in ways that are almost entirely unreadable. They look like paragraphs that separate lines and stanzas using slashes... which all look like capital i's, especially to a dyslexic reader.

Someone should've advised against that.

Like the shitty editor of great talent.