The Feng Shui Detective Goes South
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As he travels around Asia solving crimes the venerable feng shui Master C.F. Wong is so much more than an interior design consultant. In this latest adventure he and other members of the Union of Industrial Mystics are introduced to a young woman who, all their mystical arts tell them, is doomed to die.Trying to save her calls for desperate measures and their best efforts eventually send Mr Wong and his brash young intern Joyce McQuinnie to Sydney. There at the famed Opera House, a building with appalling feng shui, surprising things happen, much cross cultural chaos ensues and as you would expect with the inimitable Feng Shui detective the day is saved in most inventive ways.Nury Vittachi was born in Ceylon and lives with his English wife and their three Chinese children in Hong Kong. Irresistible mix of classic whodunit and Asian philosophy outlandish humour, self-deprecating charm, and a biting subtext.'The Age , Melbourne
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Vittachi smoothly mixes humor and crime in his second whodunit to be made available in the U.S. featuring Singapore feng shui specialist C.F. Wong (after 2004's The Feng Shui Detective). Wong's plan to make a packet by serving as middleman on a deal for small fruit-shaped highlighter pens involving the only Indian member of the Chinese mafia goes awry after the supplier fills the implements with black ink, leaving Wong on the hook for a huge amount of money. Wong's luck changes with a lucrative commission to insure the spiritual balance of a giant plane redesigned to serve as a flying conference center and to apply his geomancy to Buckingham Palace itself. But an oil company executive's murder threatens to scuttle the job, forcing Wong to again turn sleuth. What appears to be an open-and-shut case leads to an especially ingenious solution. The quirky supporting cast provides abundant comic relief.
