The soul of "Corpse Garden" is Carr's gorgeous puzzles and reversals, and its flesh and blood is the fireworks, makeup, blood and undercurrents of Shanghai in 1936. It will prove to readers that the most sophisticated crimes often grow in the deepest mire of local culture. At the end of the story, when Fang Sishen finally solved the mystery, but found that what he revealed was just the prologue of a larger conspiracy on the precarious "isolated island", the questioning of human nature and the nation really began.
