Wine can also kill

Author: Lao Cha
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: On the night of July 1, 1997, as the entire country celebrated the return of Hong Kong to the embrace of the motherland, a murder occurred in a room at the Beijing Capital Hotel. The victim was a former leader of the Kuomintang's military intelligence who had just returned to the mainland from Taiwan. The cause of death was poisoning. The scene left almost no trace of the perpetrator. Chief of Police Cao Hanzhong and his partner, Sima Shangwen, were assigned to investigate the case. A series of suspicious individuals emerged, a mysterious bottle was miraculously found, and a major breakthrough was achieved in the case. Through meticulous investigation and scientific reasoning, it led to a love-hate story of a family in old Beijing during the closing days of liberation.