Synopsis: |
England, 1930s: Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases are the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards war, Banks realises he must return to the city and at last solve the mystery - that only by his doing will civilisation be saved from the approaching catastrophe. |