Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 152, Nos. 3 & 4. Whole Nos. 924 & 925, September/October 2018

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S. J. Rozan is the author of the eleven- to oh Bill Smith anti Lydia Chin P.I. series, two standalone novels under her own name, and two thrillers cowritten with Carlos Dews under the pseudonym Sam Cabot. Her many awards and honors include a 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination for her story “Chin Yong-Yun Stays at Home” (AHMM, 2017). Here is a new case for Chin Yong-Yun, mother of Lydia Chin.

Lan Li should have known better, of course.

Sitting opposite her in my living room, I sipped some tea in order to prevent myself from pointing that out. I am not the sort of person who likes to draw attention to the obvious. Besides, scolding Lan Li would have done no good. I had no doubt she would be on guard against this same trick — I believe the word my daughter, the detective, uses in English is “scam” — should it present itself again in the future. But Lan Li is on the whole a fool. To try to make her wise would be to hurl eggs against a rock. The eggs would be wasted, the rock unchanged.

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