Chan Ho Kei
Yiwang Xingjing. The Man who Sold the World

Genre: Detective Novel
Pages: 280
Origin: Hong Kong

Xu Youyi wakes up in his car. He doesn't remember why he didn't sleep at home and how he got to that park so far form his district. Smelling his jacket he understands that maybe he is having an awful hung over. He can't remember what happened the night before, and the previous ones.

Everything for him is usual but at the same time oddly unfamiliar. The only thing clear in his mind is the image of two corpses bleeding on the floor: the sensational murder he is investigating. And this is quite strange because his lapse of memory is far greater than he has thought: the murder happened six years before.

The case has already been solved but something in the reconstruction of the events doesn't match. With the help of a young journalist, Xu Yuoyi starts working on a different trail which lead to a suspect ignored by the previous investigation.

The journalist therefore asks for an identikit of the suspect and when she discovers that he is the man who is standing in front of her, everything seems to rush to a tragic ending. Who is really the policeman? Is he Yan Zhicheng or Xu Youyi? Is he the murderer?... As in great detective stories nothing would be completely clear until the last piece is set.

 

About the author: Chan Ho Kei is a young computer scientist who had been in various careers; he worked as a software engineer, a script writer, a game designer and an editor of comic magazines. His debut as a writer is dated 2008, when his short story The Murder Case of Jack and the Beanstalk has been shortlisted in the Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award.

With the novel The Locked Room of Bluebeard he won the following edition of the award. The Man who Sold the World is his latest novel. Winner of the second edition of the Soji Shimada Award it has been published in Taiwan and will be published in China, Japan, Thailand and Malaysia.

Focus on: Winner of the Soji Shimada Mystery Award (Taiwan - 2011). A gripping plot with an unexpected twist at the end. A puzzle with an inconceivable but perfectly logical solution.

Forthcoming publications:

Japan (Bungeishunj? Ltd.)
China (Phoenix Edita)
Taiwan (Crown Ltd.)
Malaysia (Integra Majujaya- English edition)
Thailand edition (Nanmee Books)

Rights available:

 Europe: Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland,Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, France, Spain and Germany Asia: India, Bangladesh and Philippines. Oceania: Australia and New Zealand.