The Yin Tally Casebook

Setting: From the twelfth year of the Republic of China (1923) to the twenty-sixth year (1937), spanning the turbulent era of warlord conflicts and the years just before the Japanese invasion of China.

Main story: Chen Qinghe, a down-and-out scholar descended from a line of spirit mediums who communicate with the dead, is unexpectedly drawn into a series of bizarre murder cases. Using his family's ancient Book of the Hidden Talisman and the arts of feng shui and geomancy, he uncovers one shocking secret after another, hidden behind folk legends in a time of chaos.