Travel Detective: An Icebound Angel from the Start

The late Qing dynasty was in turmoil. The Self-Strengthening Movement and the Hundred Days' Reform had both failed, the foreign powers circled like vultures, and the nation was on the brink of collapse. Determined to save their country through industry, wave after wave of students returned from overseas. Shen Zhongwen was one of them. He had studied in Russia, was learned and level-headed, and had a particular fondness for detective fiction. But on his journey home, a bizarre murder took place, and danger lurked everywhere. The truth was as elusive as a flower glimpsed through fog. What he didn't know was that the train was headed straight into an even greater conspiracy...