Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries
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1) China trade
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lydia Chin, hired to recover rare stolen porcelains, must maneuver around Chinatown gangs while investigating the established world of art and collecting.
2) Concourse
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
280 p. 22 cm.
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English
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
275 p. ; cm.
Language
English
Description
When Lydia Chin is hired to deliver a ransom in exchange for some stolen fashion designs, she finds herself involved in a case of prostitution, drugs, and murder.
4)
No colder place , Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 4
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Lydia Chin is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected figures in Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple task. Lydia, along with her professional partner, Bill Smith, is to fly to Hong Kong to deliver a family heirloom to the young grandson of a recently deceased colleague of Grandfather Gao. But before they can deliver the heirloom, the grandson is kidnapped and two separate ransom demands are made.
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his nephew Greg is arrested in New York City and then escapes, Bill Smith, along with his partner Lydia Chin, sets out to find Greg and arrives in a small New Jersey town, where he is confronted by dark secrets, both the town's and his own.
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private detectives Lydia Chin and Joel Pilarsky investigate the theft of jewelry that once belonged to a young Austrian refugee who fled to Shanghai from Hitler's Europe during World War II; but things turn deadly when a man is murdered and Lydia learns that the valuable gem, Shanghai Moon, may be part of the same stash.
10) On the line
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Description
Private investigator Smith is led on a high-stakes goose chase when his occasional partner Lydia Chin is kidnapped. Bill has to stay ahead of the police while he uncovers the kidnapper's identity.
11) Ghost hero
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Series
Description
Investigating a rumor about new paintings by a famous contemporary Chinese artist who has been dead for twenty years, private investigator Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, discover that a new client is not who he claims to be.
12) Paper son
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Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Informed that an unknown cousin is in jail, Chinese-American private detective Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, travel to the Mississippi Delta, where they confront river-levee disputes, computer scams, and questions about her cousin's innocence.
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Pegasus Crime/Pegasus Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the latest mystery from S. J. Rozan, Bill Smith and Lydia Chin must track down a serial killer stalking women in New York's contemporary art scene.
Former client Sam Tabor, just out of Greenhaven after a five-year homicide stint, comes to Bill Smith with a strange request. A colossally talented painter whose parole was orchestrated by art world movers and shakers, Sam's convinced that since he's been out he's killed two women. He doesn't remember...
14) Family business
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The death of a powerful Chinatown crime boss thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, subterfuge, murder, and--because this is New York City--real estate in this new mystery by Edgar Award-winning novelist S. J. Rozan. The death of Chinatown's most powerful mogul, a powerful Chinatown crime boss, thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, murder, and real...
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When the son of NYC's first female mayor disappears, PI Bill Smith and his partner, Lydia Chin, are called in the find the missing 15-year-old but are faced with more questions than answers, they turn to the only contacts who could help: the neighborhood leaders who are the real "mayors" of NY.