Chen Shi

时晨 SHI Chen is a Chinese crime writer and member of the Shanghai Writers’ Association. Known for his commitment to classical fair-play and honkaku detection, he is the author of the mathematician-detective Chen Jue series, including The Obsidian Mansion Murder, The Prison Island Murders, The Fatal Tower Murder, The Puppet Village Murder, The Vain City Murder and The Insects Mountain Murder. He is also the author of the Republican-era Shanghai mysteries Once Upon a Time in Shanghai and The Legacy of the Gentleman Thief, as well as The Stubborn Ones, a non-fiction work about running a specialist mystery bookshop. His short fiction has appeared in Chinese mystery magazines and anthologies, and his work has been translated into Japanese, Vietnamese, Russian and Traditional Chinese editions. In 2021, he founded one of China’s first specialist detective-fiction bookshops, later relaunched as 谜芸馆 Mystery Books, where he continues to promote classic detection and original Chinese mystery fiction.