Book review: Hong Kong Noir, by Feng Chi-shun
Feng offers "15 true tales from the dark side of the city", although none is related to his work. He says his stories come from press reports, other reliable sources, or from the "remarkable" lives of his friends.
Hong Kong Noir
by Feng Chi-shun
Blacksmith Books
Hongkonger Feng Chi-shun has spent his life with death. "I am by nature and nurture, rather undaunted and unperturbed by blood and gore, brutality and violence," the pathologist admits in the foreword to his book.
Feng offers "15 true tales from the dark side of the city", although none is related to his work. He says his stories come from press reports, other reliable sources, or from the "remarkable" lives of his friends.
They fall into three sections: "Losers and Boozers", "Beyond Villains and Victims" and "Sex and the City". Some involve Feng retelling infamous crimes. Inside Hello Kitty's Head is the horrifying 1999 case of a tortured woman, whose decapitated head was hidden inside a life-sized Hello Kitty doll.