Chinaman's Chance by Ross ThomasMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Great prose and layered crime plot that comes together very enjoyably in the end. All you have to do is read the hook in the first sentence and you too will be instantly mesmerized:
"The Pretender to the Emperor's Throne was a fat thirty-seven-year-old Chinaman named Artie Wu who always jogged along Malibu Beach right after dawn even in summer, when dawn came round as early as 4:42. It was while jogging along the beach just east of the Paradise Cove pier that he tripped over a dead pelican, fell, and meet the man with six greyhounds. It was the sixteenth of June, a Thursday.
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