The Dogear

The Borrowed

by Chan Ho-Kei

2015 · mystery & crime

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Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
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Follows six cases from the fifty-year career of brilliant Hong Kong detective Kwan Chun-dok, each from a pivotal period of the territory's history, from Chun-dok's experiences in the 1967 leftist riot to his final 2013 case in a Hong-Kong growing to resemble a police state.

Set in

  • ★
    Hong Kong · Hong Kong
    Hong Kong crime across decades
    ★ primary

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