Inspector Zhang Books in Order

Traveling from Singapore to Bangkok, Inspector Zhang finds his journey interrupted by a death in the first-class cabin. With Sergeant Lee assisting, he must identify the killer and motive among the passengers before an apparently confined setting conceals the truth.

A consignment of narcotics disappears while watched by Drugs Squad detectives, leaving Singapore police baffled. Inspector Zhang is called in to investigate the apparent locked-room puzzle, using deduction to determine how the drugs vanished despite the officers’ surveillance.

Inspector Zhang witnesses a woman fall to her death during an evening in Singapore. What initially appears to be suicide becomes a more complicated investigation, forcing him to question the obvious explanation and apply his detective skills to the circumstances.

Singapore detective Inspector Zhang longs for a difficult mystery and finally encounters one when a hotel guest is murdered in a locked room. Surveillance shows nobody entering or leaving, forcing him to reconcile the evidence with an apparently impossible crime.

A woman’s murder leaves fingerprints and bite marks linking a known burglar to the crime, but he was in police custody at the time. Inspector Zhang must resolve the contradiction and determine whether a locked cell truly provides an unbreakable alibi.

Inspector Zhang travels to Harrogate for a mystery writers’ convention, expecting a holiday away from policing. When a famous author is found dead in a locked room, the Singapore detective faces a difficult puzzle in the midst of his fellow mystery enthusiasts.

Inspector Zhang is called to Sentosa after a doctor is found stabbed inside a locked room. The apparent impossibility of the killing demands careful deduction, as the Singapore detective searches for the explanation hidden behind misleading first impressions.