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The first ever multi-author anthology of crime fiction set in Singapore. Featuring stories from veteran UK crime writer Stephen Leather, Singapore Literature Prize winner Ng Yi-Sheng, and popular Singapore-based authors Richard Lord, Chris Mooney-Singh, Dawn Farnham, Lee Ee Leen, Pranav Joshi, Zafar Anjum, and Carolyn Camoens.
- Sales Rank: #4335132 in Books
- Published on: 2011-02-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.91" h x .86" w x 5.32" l, .61 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
About the Author
Jutta Brunnee is Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law at the University of Toronto.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
"Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish" I really liked this story
By Eugene W. Moyer
Story One: "Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish" I really liked this story. I liked it because it pays homage to Christie's Poirot. I also liked it because it quietly enumerates the reasonable possibilities of a "locked room mystery." This has a traditional thoughtful inspector, exercising his "little gray cells" to solve a riddle. When Zhang specifies the traditional explanations of a "locked room mystery," his ratiocination brings to mind the techniques of history's first true literary detective--Poe's C. Auguste Dupin.
Story Two: "Lead Balloon." I also liked this story because it shows the damage ( in this case, fatal damage ) that can result from the petty exercise of authority, and the small-minded but malignant pettiness that characterizes those seeking revenge. In this case, both the initial pettiness and the malignant pettiness resulting in a lead-poisoning murder, are feminine in nature. But men are capable of such small-minded revenge too. "Lead Balloon" is a nice, simple story about the essential ugliness and mediocrity of human nature.
Story Three: "Decree Absolute" This is a disaster of a story, impoverished in conception--read that as cliched in conception, and disastrous in execution. The writing is primitive and boring, grammatically incorrect in numerous cases, and just downright amateurish. This is a very harsh assessment, and I sincerely HOPE that this is NOT one of your stories written under a pseudonym. After reading this story, I found myself thinking: "Why the hell did I just spend time reading this story, when life is so short? I could have been in my studio sculpting or lying in bed reading Updike instead. . . .
Story Four: "The Corporate Wolf" I enjoyed this story from start to finish. It has a breezy, cynical tone throughout, and the cynicism plays nicely with my own personal psyche.
The way the details of the supposed nano-particle toxin debacle are discussed is very nicely done. I liked the realism of the sundry considerations. There is also a good "O'Henry" style of twist in the concluding scene of the story. A well-done effort.
Story Five: "The Murder Blog of Wilde Diabolito" The longest--and probably the best--of the the collection's first six stories. The conception is bold, and the boldness of the conception is executed almost perfectly. It is a VERY original technique to take a Wilde poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," ( one of my favorite ballad / lyrical poems ) and use its first series of lines to form the basis of a murder story. I don't think I've ever seen this done before in a "murder" short story. What is particularly nicely done is the chilling handling of the DL cyber-scene website. I didn't see any flaws in this story. But it is a DANGEROUS story. It is dangerous because it is the kind of contemporary story that will appeal to lonely, contemporary misfits, the kind of impressionable, unstable losers who shoot people in shopping malls or schools at random etc. I could easily see this type of story appealing more than it should to misfit losers such as a youthful Joe Salvino, for example. But I was never a misfit loser, and I read "The Murder Blog of Wilde Diabolito" purely for its entertainment value, much as I periodically watch episodes of "The Twilight Zone" around Halloween. Incidentally, if "The Twilight Zone" had still been around as a contemporary TV program, this story would have made a great hour-long episode. I could even see this story being made into a chilling, creepily effective full-length feature film. This story should be peddled by its author to the Hollywood set. . . . An excellent effort.
Story Six: "A Sticky Situation" I also liked this story. Of the first six stories, I placed this story number three in quality, behind Diabolito and the Corporate Wolf, just ahead of the Inspector Zhang story. As I was reading it, I kept thinking of the old Elliot Ness "Untouchables" series of my childhood, back in the early sixties. This story is equipped with very effective, realistic "Godfather"-type dialog.
Story Seven: "The Madmen of Geylang" As I read this story, I felt unmoved; I had neither a positive nor a negative feeling about having read it. I just coasted through it as breezily as if I were browsing through a sports page in a local newspaper. It's not particularly imaginative or well-written; neither is it badly written. It's a hum-ho effort.
Story Eight: "The Lost History of Shadows" This was a much more interesting story than story seven. The story uses a kind of "expostulation" technique, the way, perhaps, that Perry Mason might do a lot of "surprise explanation" at the back end of an old Stanley Gardner "who dunnit." The dialog is nicely realistic, and nothing is forced. The characters, in their essential ugliness, are very believable, as is the situation.
Story Nine: This is another story that I HOPE you didn't write under a pseudonym. I read the story twice--to make sure that there was nothing I might have missed after the first go. I didn't like the story at all the first time I read it, and after having done so a second time, I still didn't like it. This story is the kind of story that is full of gibberish imagery that some authors--especially young self-induglent authors--expect mature readers to take seriously. Such authors are expecting too much. I got the impression that the author who wrote it had the hunger to be compactly profound--it's a fairly short piece--without the requisite talent to match that ambition. It would be like Joyce Carol Oates trying to write like Updike--ambition to excel can only compensate so much for an inherent lack of talent; will-power has its limits.
Story Ten: "The House on Tomb Lane" As I read this story, I felt a similar indifference to what I experienced while reading "The Madman of Geylang." It's a rather routine story of revenge which has a few dramatic moments towards its end. One thing, though, I DID like about the story was the sentence structure; the author uses compact. declarative sentences to push you along through the narrative, it's almost as if you're reading the personal diaries of the main characters bent on revenge. This style of writing is the best way to go for this genre of story.
Story Eleven: "The First Time" I loved this story; it's a great little piece, proving that a story needn't be long to be compelling or profound. Of all the stories in the book, it has by far the most polished objective narration. The narrative is not only polished; it also does a hell of a good job portraying the dazed mentality of the victim. Each of the included details in the narrative effectively distills essence--the mark of a good story-teller / writer. This story, along with the chilling "Murder Blog of Wilde Diabolito,"The Corporate Wolf," and "The Lost History of Shadows," was / were my favorite stories in the collection.
Story Twelve: "Unnatural Causes"Unnatural Causes" has a nice "double-agent" kind of twist to it, because there are two private investigators tangled up in the story--spying and spied-upon. The style of both the narrative and the dialog is forties / fifties--"hard-boiled." The writing actually reminds me of the terse, cynical mood of Robert Mitchum in "film-noir" flicks; it also reminds me a little bit of those old Mickey Spillane paperbacks in the early and middle sixties.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Crime Scene Singapore - Where You have a Lot of Light, ...
By Miki101.Michaela :0)))
... You'll also find a lot of shadows.
This old saying should be the motto of the collection of short stories which will introduce the interested readers to a world of crimes noboby expects to find in "squeaky-clean" Singapore.
For the 10 authors it has surely been a bit of a challenge to produce crimes and felons intelligent enough to get often away with their misdeeds. And my personal opinion is that my expectations have been amply surpassed!
So let us take a look at this broad view of good, old "Singa-Bore's" crime scene...
The collection opens with a closed room mystery where old-fashioned "Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish" to resolve a crime with the help of his ample knowledge of criminal fiction. And it's written with all the tricks and twists a master writer like Stephen Leather has in his repertoire...
Lee Ee Leen shows us in her "Lead Ballon" how resourceful pupils may answer to the sometimes elevated pressures in high school...
Renowned local novelist Dawn Farnham presents in "Decree Absolute" an ingenious version of divorce, Singapore style...
A typically Singaporean crime situated in one of the big enterprises has been masterly elaborated by novelist and poet Pranav S. Joshi, who shows us the many ways "a Corporate Wolf" can act...
Chris Mooney-Singh's "Murder Blog of Wilde Diabolito" takes us posting by posting into a lurid cyber world where cyber sex substitutes the "real thing", but the very real crime is inspired by an Oscar Wilde pamphlet poem - an 1897 equivalent of an online blog...
In "a Sticky Situation" are the protagonists who commit a "crime" which makes fun of one of the most unique Singaporean legal restrictions in this persiflage written by the aspiring local author Alaric Leong...
With "the Madman of Geylang" the journalist, author and editor Zafar Anjum takes us into a future Singapore where also the personal relations are strictly regulated, with the most devastating consequences for certain individuals...
In "the Lost Hystory of Shadows" has not only gone lost the knowledge of a brutal slaughter that took place on St.Lucy's Day of 1938, but also the moniker our Lion City had in those prewar days: Sin Galore. But Singapore-based writer Aaron Ang describes meticulously the repercussions this crime will have in the present...
Can an entire city feel "Nostalgia" and eradiate it onto her inhabitants, creating the right atmosphere for an awful crime? That's the very original question full-time poet Ng Yi-Sheng poses to the readers...
In "the House on Tomb Lane" a brutal and slow killing has been committed to a young Filipina maid and her relatives are bringing justice in this moving story written by Dawn Farnham, also known for her historical novels set in Singapore...
The gripping story of "the First Time" told by Carolyn Camoens let the readers decide if it's the crime that's worse or maybe the knowledge and negation of it...
And as the collection opens with a story of a Singapore Police Inspector, it closes with the tale of a Private Investigator. Richard Lord, the world-renowned author and editor takes us through the "Innatural causes" that cause ... death.
Logically there are other great authors who write very good novels about Singapore-based crime investigators like - for example - Shamini Flint with her Inspector Singh or Jake Needham with his Inspector Samuel Tay.
But an anthology has only so many pages and is meant to be an appetizer, a bait to hook the readers, to draw the interest to the - existing - Singapore Crime Scene.
Because - as the local law enforcement people like to remind: LOW crime does not mean NO crime...
And how true ist that ... :)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Some were quite good indeed, some were rather average
By S. Fox
I posted this review elsewhere, and I'll put it here as well.
I read another collection of crime stories set in Singapore just before this, "Singapore Noir", and most of the things I said in that review are entirely relevant to this review, because they're very similar books.
As with most collections of short stories, you're inevitably going to find stories stronger than others, and that's the case here. Some were quite good indeed, some were rather average, and some had strong starts but weak finishes.
If I could give this a 3.5 out of 5 then I would, but overall, I enjoyed my time with this book without being left exactly speechless with amazement by anything I read here. It's a quick read and worth doing if you have a particular interest in Singapore.
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