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Crown Colony novels volume 6
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English
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"The Allies have defeated Germany in Europe, but Japan refuses to surrender the East. In Singapore, amid rumours the Japanese occupiers are preparing to wipe out the population of the island rather than surrender, a young aide is found murdered beneath the termite mushroom tree in Hideki Tagawa's garden and his plans for a massive poison gas bomb are missing. To prevent any more destruction it falls to Su Lin to track down the real killer with the...
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Inspector Singh investigates volume 4
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English
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Inspector Singh is in Cambodia - wishing he wasn't. He's been sent as an observer to the international war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, the latest effort by his superiors to ensure that he is anywhere except in Singapore.
45) Marina Bay sins
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Inspector Low novel volume 1
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English
Description
"Detective Inspector Stanley Low-belligerent, bipolar, and brilliant. A Chinese-Singaporean, educated in London, with a foot in both cities. His mission, to eradicate violent crime wherever he finds it. Low is having a bad day. His bipolar disorder is ruining another session with his psychiatrist, and when a murdered prostitute and a dead expatriate are discovered at Singapore's most prestigious hotel in the glamorous Marina Sins Bay, he is plunged...
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Inspector Singh investigates volume 3
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English
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Homicide detective Inspector Singh has returned home to Singapore to rest his weary feet after time spent globe-trotting and crime-solving in Malaysia and Bali. But it's not long before he wishes he would be sent off to another foreign locale. With his wife nagging him and his boss lecturing him about his unconventional work habits, he's thrilled when a new case comes across his desk. A senior partner at an international law firm has been murdered,...
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English
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Inspector Singh is irate. He's been instructed to attend a Commonwealth conference on policing in London: a job for paper pushers, not real cops, as far as he is concerned. And as if that isn't bad enough, his wife is determined to come along to shop for souvenirs and visit previously unknown relatives. But it isn't long before the cold case that lands on Singh's ample lap turns into a hot potato and he has to outwit Scotland Yard, his wife and London's...
49) The oddfits
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English
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"Eight-year-old Murgatroyd Floyd doesn't fit in - not as a blue-eyed blonde living in Singapore, not in school, and certainly not with his aloof expatriate parents, who seem determined to make his life even harder. Unbeknownst to him, there's a reason why he's always the odd boy out: he is an Oddfit, a rare type of human with access to the More Known World, a land invisible to most people. Yet unfortunate circumstances keep Murgatroyd stranded in...
50) Pokój służącej
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Polish
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"Dolly i Tala - dwie siostry pochodzące z Filipin pracują w Singapurze jako pomoc w domach brytyjskich imigrantów. Mieszkają w pokoikach bez okien, usługują, sprzątają i wychowują dzieci swoich pracodawców. Są na każde zawołanie. Dolly zostawiła na Filipinach malutką córkę i żyje nadzieją, że kiedyś ją zobaczy. Tala jest niespokojnym duchem - pewnego dnia odkrywa popularnego wśród zamożnych mieszkańców metropolii bloga z...
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Inspector Low novel volume 2
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English
Description
"When a foreign worker is found dead in a Singapore back street, few people care. But then another victim turns up, and then another, all killed with the same weapon. With its reputation as a safe, global city in ruins, Singapore struggles to come to grips with its first serial killer in decades. And when a famous woman disappears, terror takes hold. In desperation, the authorities turns to the one man they loathe almost as much as the serial killer...
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Español
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Estas normas son algo que la joven Jules, recién llegada a Singapur, no acaba de comprender por mucho que sus nuevas amigas insistan en que son necesarias para manejar al servicio filipino. Frente a esas señoras prifilegiadas, las doncellas como la joven Dolly o su rebelde hermana Tala soportan esta situación escandalosamente injusta a cambio del dinero necesario para mantener a sus familias. Pero, ¿hasta cuándo aguantarán sin rebelarse?
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