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    Feng Shui Detective's Casebook

    By Nury Vittachi

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    A murder in the Philippines, a kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore; it's just another day at the office for CF Wongand his slacker assistant Joyce. More feng shui master than detective, Wong would much rather get paid, go home and put his feet up, but that's just not going to happen. They are in demand - all over Asia! Perplexing crimes, ingenious schemes, exotic locations and bucketloads of charm, The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook is Vittachi at his witty, original best.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPolygon
    Release dateMay 14, 2015
    ISBN9780857900487
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    • 4/5
      A most enjoyable collection of amusing, entertaining and intruiging little mysteries. The culture clash aspect is well-exploited, although I found teenage assistant Joyce a little messy as a character -- I was sure she was from the US at the start due to the variety of English she spoke but it was later revealed she is English. Her voice just missed the mark of ringing true to me. That is a very small nitpick, however, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend these short stories as a pleasing, well-written, light-hearted diversion.
    • 4/5
      An Australian 17 year old from Sydney, looking for somewhere to spend her summer holidays is not really Mr Wong's idea of an ideal assistant, particularly when he doesn't really need one. Not only is she female, loud, not Chinese, but she speaks a language he doesn't understand. C.F. Wong is persuaded to take Jo McQuinnie on as a favour to her father, who is by way of being a client.Mr Wong is a geomancer, a feng shui expert, whose Singapore operation is very small, just two rooms, and just himself and his secretary Winnie Lim. Jo McQuinnie wants to shadow Mr Wong, to spend her summer observing him, and learning about the practice of feng shui.THE FENG SHUI DETECTIVE is actually a collection of 9 short stories drawn together by their common thread of Mr Wong and his new assistant. They range various locations in South East Asia, Singapore, Hong Kong, New Delhi, and Ho Chi Minh City, providing expert feng shui advice, at the same time solving mysteries from murders to real estate scams.The reader is introduced to Nury Vittachi's quirky sense of humour early on: The neighbourhood was temporarily woken at seven o'clock by a minor emergency: a small fire in the building opposite, apparently caused by a joss stick falling out of a shrine dedicated to the God of Safety, according to the watchman. Sirens shook the buildings until a fireman arrived to find an elderly Buddhist nun had stamped out the fire with her bare feet - hard calloused hooves which were quite undamaged by the harsh usage.Jo and Mr Wong are an unlikely team, she a lively foil to his more sedate approach to life, and the combination works. Very different style of books I know, but I couldn't help thinking of Colin Cotterill's Dr Siri Paiboun in THIRTY THREE TEETH and other titles.The structure of the book is interesting too. Each short story is preceded by an old Chinese tale, often related to the practice of feng shui. On the following page is Mr Wong's modern distillation of the old tale. The short story that follows is related somehow to this distillation.If you know nothing about feng shui are you going to enjoy THE FENG SHUI DETECTIVE? Well, having read the book, my knowledge of feng shui is still at best rudimentary. But I found each story posed an intriguing puzzle. Vittachi pokes fun at a variety of things: Mr Wong's attempts to understand his young assistant's language, the food presented to Jo, the ways in which the practice of feng shui is used, while still giving the reader glimpses of local culture.
    • 5/5
      This book has also been issued as: The Feng Shui Detective goes South". This particular edition is a novel; there is also a book of short stories by the same name. I suspect that the short story collection was also issued as The Feng Shui Detective's Casebook, but I couldn't verify that.Nury Vittachi is one of my favorite writers, and this book, set in cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic Singapore is hysterically funny. A routine feng shui evaluation of a house launches C. F. Wong into an investigation of a series of possibly related crimes, including attempted murder. Trailing along is his intern, Australian teenager Joyce McQuinnie, reluctantly accepted as a favor to a friend. Wong is baffled by Joyce's lifestyle and slang ridden English; they none-the-less join forces and learn to respect one another. Even Wong's employee-from-hell Winnie Lim can't stop them.Wong is also attempting to compile a book of Chinese wisdom; fragments of it make an interesting and sometimes humorous counterpoint to the story.
    • 4/5
      A marvelous mix of Asian themes and detective fiction, with a marvelous overlay of droll humour. When you hire the Feng Shui detective he will solve the crime and reorganise your house. For a fee of course.
    • 5/5
      Based in Singapore, with a cast of interesting characters from different cultures – Chinese, Malaysian, British, and Australian - the humour is delightful in this novel. Much of the humour comes from language and different interpretations of cultures and words. (It is very similar to the communication between IT developers that happen every day, as the IT world becomes more and more international.) The mysteries being solved – yes, more than one - are also well thought-out and plotted. A delightful novel.