Publisher's Synopsis
England, 1930s Christopher Banks has become the countrys most celebrated detective, his cases are the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards war, Banks realises he must return to the city and at last solve the mystery - that only by his doing will civilisation be saved from the approaching catastrophe.
