Hamlet Murders

In the latest installment in the "Zhong Fong" series, the city's 18 million residents are hurtling toward modernization, and hits home when Fong rooms at the Shanghai Theatre are being condo-ized, and he can buy them at a special price-four years worth of his salary. The night watchman summons Fong to the theatre, where finds his old rival Geoffrey Highland swinging from a rope at centre stage.