Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.9
Points
18.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
104621
Points per Word
0.000172
Description
Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective. But one case still haunts him - the disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. The story moves between London and Shanghai during the inter-war years.