Download or read book The Feng Shui Detective s Casebook written by Nury Vittachi and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Feng shui master and amateur sleuth C. F. Wong would much rather put his feet up than solve crimes, but he and his over-enthusiastic assistant Joyce are in demand." "The itinerary for their business trip around Asia didn't mention a missing Thai film idol, grand theft auto in Singapore, an escaped tiger in a supermarket or a Sydney gym where they seem to be exercising their elderly clients to death." --Book Jacket.

Download or read book The Feng Shui Detective written by Nury Vittachi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of crafty plotting, quirky humour and Asian philosophy, this is the first book of the Feng Shui Detective series.

Download or read book The Feng Shui Detective Goes South written by Nury Vittachi and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he travels around Asia solving crimes the venerable feng shui Master C.F. Wong is so much more than an interior design consultant. In this latest adventure he and other members of the Union of Industrial Mystics are introduced to a young woman who, all their mystical arts tell them, is doomed to die. Trying to save her calls for desperate measures and their best efforts eventually send Mr Wong and his brash young intern Joyce McQuinnie to Sydney. There at the famed Opera House, a building with appalling feng shui, surprising things happen, much cross cultural chaos ensues and as you would expect with the inimitable Feng Shui detective the day is saved in most inventive ways. Nury Vittachi was born in Ceylon and lives with his English wife and their three Chinese children in Hong Kong. Irresistible mix of classic whodunit and Asian philosophyoutlandish humour, self-deprecating charm, and a biting subtext'.

Download or read book Feng Shui Detective Goes South written by Nury Vittachi and published by Saint Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mr Wong Goes West written by Nury Vittachi and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to laugh - the Feng Shui Detective is back in an all new adventure. Feng Shui master CF Wong's skills and charms are again in desperate need, this time in London. But is the West ready for our Feng Shui crime-fighting hero?

Download or read book The Feng Shui Detective Goes West written by Nury Vittachi and published by Master Wong Mysteries. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Wong, Feng Shui consultant and amateur detective, travels to Buckingham Palace to help the Queen.

Download or read book Feng Shui Detectives Notebook written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Mr Wong Goes West written by Nury Vittachi and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.F. Wong is not a fan of Western culture, so it seems like his worst nightmare when he gets an assignment to deal with the British royal family. He heads to Buckingham Palace to do a feng shui reading in an attempt to end the Windsors' anni horribiles. But a bomb on his plane might just cause the wheels to come off the plan.

Download or read book De fengshui detective written by Nury Vittachi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Een feng shui-specialist uit Singapore lost negen criminele cases op.

Download or read book Lines written by Andrew Chappell and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humour is the invisible mesh that holds the Universe and our world together. Four hapless heroes try to explain this mesh using amongst other ideas, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. Their views conflict on matters regarding happiness and emotions. These heroes have to come together to mend the mesh and rescue someone. They are the humour. The story begins in an office in present-day Singapore. The office of Mr. Cheng the owner of 'The Feng Shui Agency of the Paranormal'. Mr. Cheng deals mostly with clients who have 'domestic' issues being blamed on superstition. Then Zahirah arrives. She is seeing images of someone from the past at work. She hears noises, sees things in her bedroom. Her dreams disturb her. She is an unemotional, rational lady so 'something' is not correct. As the story develops, we learn about a character from Zahirah's past. The ex-husband, Alfred, from a marriage that lasted only a few days. Why only a few days? What are the suppressed emotions of Zahirah? What were the problems with Alfred? Questions to be answered. Alfred is a professor in Mathematical Modelling at Kuala Lumpur University, suffering from mental illness and fibromyalgia syndrome. By coincidence, he is visiting Singapore with his family. There are too many emotions at play whilst he is visiting. He lectures on the connection between science and emotions, particularly the pursuit of happiness. He is an expert on Space-Time and single dimensions. Also, an expert on his own madness. This knowledge will be vital. Mr. Cheng also consults with his friend Mr. Xi Ling, a Confucian master to help.Then mediaeval armour is found, without explanation, in Zahirah's bedroom. An inspirational English Teacher, Richard, becomes involved as the expert on medieval history and armour. The armour appears genuine. Richard consults a 'gamer' on such armour in computer games.Alfred and Richard become friends and we learn of their joint interests. Events then have their own momentum as a shopping mall - the building - tries to kill Richard whilst he has some of the armour. He is sucked into a window. He survives and it is witnessed by a strange Japanese Lady.Richard examines more artefacts including a medieval dagger called a bazelard. Strangely, actual buildings then try to kill him. These buildings use their very edges. The single dimension of an edge, an unseen edge unless you know how to look. He is sucked into the world of blades, edges and lines that are vicious. They want, they need! They have past emotions waiting. He fights back with his bazelard and survives.Zahirah goes missing, apparently into the building. They finally accept Alfred's ideas and Mr. Cheng and Alfred go into the bedroom, the scene of past emotional turmoil, to return the artefacts and rescue Zahirah. Do they succeed? What do they discover?

Download or read book Jeri Telstar and the Small Black Dog That Talked Like the President written by Nury Vittachi and published by PPP Company Ltd. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the worlds nerdiest costumed crimefighter encounters a talking dog, he realizes a bizarre evil plot is afoot. And when supervillain Magnus Metalbiter enters the scene, the Homework Hero realizes that its going to take all his powersplus his Advanced Chemistry textbookto save the world.

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Download or read book Singapore Noir written by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dark side of The Lion City is explored in a thrilling anthology that gives “plenty of new and unfamiliar voices a chance to shine” (San Francisco Book Review). The island city-state of Singapore harbors unique customs and traditions largely unknown to the West. A booming economy and embrace of conformity overshadow its gambling dens, red-light districts, and a collective passion for ghostly and gory tales. Now, in Singapore Noir, some of its best contemporary authors delve into its seedy side, including three winners of the Singapore Literature Prize: Simon Tay (writing as Donald Tee Quee Ho), Colin Cheong, and Suchen Christine Lim, whose contribution was named a finalist for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story. Eleven more tales showcase the talents of Colin Goh, Philip Jeyaretnam, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Monica Bhide, S.J. Rozan, Lawrence Osborne, Ovidia Yu, Damon Chua, Johann S. Lee, Dave Chua, and Nury Vittachi. “Singapore, with its great wealth and great poverty existing amid ethnic, linguistic, and cultural tensions, offers fertile ground for bleak fiction . . . Tan has assembled a strong lineup of Singapore natives and knowledgeable visitors for this volume exploring the dark side of a fascinating country.” —Publishers Weekly

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