A Tale about a Tiger

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<"This is old-fashioned story-telling at its best. Interesting and involving tales from some of the masters of mysteries."
-Michael Connelly, author of Blood Work

Private investigator Lydia Chin infiltrates New York's Chinatown to stop a dealer in valuable, and illegally obtained, animal parts - the sexual organ of the male tiger, to be exact - believed to have miraculous powers in the mysterious world of Chinese medicine. The tiger, in ...
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<"This is old-fashioned story-telling at its best. Interesting and involving tales from some of the masters of mysteries."
-Michael Connelly, author of Blood Work

Private investigator Lydia Chin infiltrates New York's Chinatown to stop a dealer in valuable, and illegally obtained, animal parts - the sexual organ of the male tiger, to be exact - believed to have miraculous powers in the mysterious world of Chinese medicine. The tiger, in danger of becoming extinct, is revered by the Chinese people. And Lydia Chin will do her best to stop the criminals in questions.

Other titles in the SOUNDS LIKE MURDER series include:
Driving Lessons by Ed McBain
The Case of the Scottish Tragedy by June Thompson
Clean American Fun by Christopher Newman
The Poster Boy by Stephen Solomita
The Sedgemoor Stranger by Peter Lovesey
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Library Journal
Drivers fumbling with cassettes will certainly appreciate unabridged stories by the best mystery authors, excellently read, two hours long, on a single cassette. Selected and edited by Edgar Award-winner Otto Penzler, the first six of these adult stories (the others are June Thompson's The Case of the Scottish Tragedy, read by Simon Jones; Stephen Solomita's The Poster Boy, read by Jason Culp; and Peter Lovesey's The Sedgemoor Strangler, read by Barbara Rosenblatt) deal with real-life situations in mature language. In A Tale About a Tiger, excellently read by Patricia Kalember, PI Lydia Chin is asked to infiltrate the illegal trade in animal parts that supports some pharmaceutical concoctions used in traditional Chinese medicine. Listeners learn interesting bits about Chinese American culture, traditional Asian medicine, and the black market in illegal animal parts. Besides all that, it's amusing and reasonably suspenseful. Driving Lessons, read by Barbara Rosenblatt, is a police story that uses careful investigative work and interrogation by Detective Karen Logan to establish responsibility for a vehicular homicide. This tightly crafted story will hold the listener's interest throughout. Clean American Fun, excellently read by Darrell Larson, puts two secret service agents investigating a rape/murder near Branson, MO, in conflict with the county sheriff and the community. There are some sharp physical confrontations in a parking lot battle and some awfully good chase scenes for an audio, as well as some nice comments on the concepts of entertainment, religion, theme parks, and society. Overall, this series appears to fit an appealing niche between the sometimes choppy abridged work and the lengthy unabridged novel; highly recommended.--Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., Ohio Felix in the Underworld by John Mortimer 6 cassettes. unabridged. 61/2 hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 1998. ISBN 0-7540-0127-X. $54.95.F Narrator Martin Jarvis turns in a fine performance of this engaging tale of a man who must learn the hard way that life is for living. Poor Felix Morsom. Once a Booker Prize candidate, the low-key, cerebral author no longer receives rave reviews or garners large sales. In fact, the only frisson of excitement in his dull existence is a slowly developing relationship with his publicist. When Felix is slapped with a paternity suit from a woman he doesn't even know, he disputes the claim but finds himself a murder suspect when the man handling the claim is killed. Mortimer, better known for his popular "Rumpole" series (e.g., Rumpole and the Angel of Death, Audio Reviews, LJ 11/1/96), artfully lampoons the publishing business and the legal profession, while Jarvis skillfully differentiates among characters, making the most of the author's dry humor. Part detective-fiction, part psychological drama, this is recommended for public libraries.--Sister M. Anna Falbo, Villa Maria Coll. Lib., Buffalo, NY
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780375402067
  • Publisher: Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 5/19/1998
  • Series: Lydia Chin and Bill Smith Series
  • Format: Cassette
  • Edition description: Unabridged
  • Product dimensions: 4.45 (w) x 7.01 (h) x 0.82 (d)

Meet the Author

S.J. Rozan's novel No Colder Place - whose protagonist is also P.I. Lydia Chin - was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best mysteries of 1997.

About the Reader

Patricia Kalember has appeared in such films as A Far Off Place and Jacob's Ladder.  She was a series regular on television's Thirtysomething.  She has previously read The Purification Ceremony for Random House AudioBooks.

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