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overnight!” Ah Tock exclaimed. Vi
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*5 Cantonese for “grandfather.”
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on Jack’s feet, while another wal
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“I don’t understand your questi
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“Ha! I don’t think my mum would
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CHAPTER TWELVE CHANGI AIRPORT, SING
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he ever saw that Jack Bing thing co
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saw across the hallway the line of
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“Mummy, are you taking Nicky to
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN TYERSALL PARK, SIN
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at her over the phone yesterday: Yo
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Eddie turned to see Professor Oon,
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Leong cousins Tyersall Park when th
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still alive who can use the title o
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coffee?” Astrid smiled placidly.
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“Ooh. I’d love to!” “The co
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PART TWO I made my money the old-fa
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Wandi was part of a particular bree
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oads for the wedding of Lucien Mont
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how Kitty would react. “How inter
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CHAPTER TWO RANAKPUR, INDIA Su Yi p
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Su Yi felt a hand on her shoulder,
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Victoria writes him so many checks
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CHAPTER THREE SINGAPORE In all his
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“Mummy detests that man. The only
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“I’m not a visitor—I’m her
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CHAPTER FOUR SURREY, ENGLAND Anyone
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“It sounds Indian,” Mabel said,
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“Alamak! Let me see! Let me see!
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As soon as the door closed, Mabel s
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CHAPTER FIVE PULAU CLUB, SINGAPORE
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Freddie Tan, a senior partner at Si
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* If you assumed that Eddie did not
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ecovered and laughed it off. “Ple
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“Surely it can’t be Delphine? I
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“Kitty, look—you’ve already c
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CHAPTER SEVEN RESIDENCES AT ONE CAI
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the most ridiculous plan I’ve eve
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typical Peranakan front room was th
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everything to avoid being in any ne
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*1 Originally an area of orchards a
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them. Then again, if that sexy Piya
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“No, no, let me,” Eddie insiste
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and I tried to give you. How did we
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“Whose birthday is it now?” Jia
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John of Jerusalem, various decorati
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curtains in the formal living room
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worked with them all! Now come with
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I’ll admit I thought you were out
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“Joey’s my cousin. I always get
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CHAPTER TWELVE BOTANIC GARDENS, SIN
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Vikram pushed against one of the wa
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“Yes, Ah Ma,” Astrid fibbed, no
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her conjuror, with no agency of her
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that they just bow and scrape away
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN TYERSALL PARK, SIN
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“Please tell Ah Ling to have Nick
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engagement scandal. “I’m having
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Su Yi cut in enthusiastically, “W
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Wu and her daughters developed a vo
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edroom: The entire ceiling had been
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PART THREE The man who dies rich, d
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very busy cooking twelve to fourtee
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at the house tonight. “Tell your
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Merchant Ivory film. They go rattli
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Augustine Cheng, Jake Moncur, Cassi
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the woodwork and crept around his h
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“It’s the funeral of the year!
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Standing at a distance, Alistair wh
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why shouldn’t she have a Birkin b
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CHAPTER THREE THE CLAYMORE, SINGAPO
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designer. Pierre Cardin, I think.
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you to see my dermatologist. Those
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know, chee cheong fun.” “Aiyah,
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attention from herself. “Aiyah, N
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As the guards proceeded up the aisl
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them. “Carlton! How did you get t
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egan to sob quietly. Felicity reach
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through. It was a photograph of Ast
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get outta here and call you back.
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CHAPTER SEVEN THE LAW OFFICES OF TA
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I, Shang Su Yi of Tyersall Park, Ty
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v. To my daughter-in-law Eleanor SU
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My only son, PHILIP YOUNG: 30 perce
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usiness interests around the world
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CHAPTER EIGHT DEMPSEY HILL, SINGAPO
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— Standing in the patio outside t
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we do?” Ah Ling just sighed. “W
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*1 Chinese sausage. *2 Steamed glut
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her? They were nowhere to be found.
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“Well, since Colette was on the c
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million, forty if the market ever r
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“There are billions of dollars at
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They crossed the street and came to
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CHAPTER TWELVE THE HELENA MAY, HONG
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After lunch, as the two of them sto
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN BONDI BEACH, SYDNE
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“Do you want to go downstairs and
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Lalanne table laden with gold-frame
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“That’s quite true.” Oliver n
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The Dowager Sultana giggled like a
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could see, and the sounds of cackli
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“Not at all. I think they’d lik
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE PEAK, HONG KONG
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and you’re interrupting!” Isabe
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Charlie and now she wants to buy my
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Scheherazade’s obviously freaked
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you?” The general was silent for
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you all now. I can see that I’ve
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dignified silence?” “I’m not
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“We already got him. Ludivine jus
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PART FOUR I often think how unfairl
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CHAPTER ONE PLACE DE FURSTENBERG, P
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een missing for the past month. Ent
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CHAPTER TWO TYERSALL PARK, SINGAPOR
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Rachel was about to go after him wh
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excommunicated me for defying their
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CHAPTER FOUR TYERSALL PARK, SINGAPO
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As if reading his mind, Ah Ling cam
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world, with interests in banking, r
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meeting. I’ve heard so much about
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“Oh my God! The earrings! Let me
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ut they couldn’t break him.” Ma
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everywhere is coming to town for th
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“There’s my little Joshie!” N
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“Well, you can’t blame her for
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to the library to talk things over,
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“Some, but not all. That one we j
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CHAPTER EIGHT TYERSALL PARK, SINGAP
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she saw the kind of man he really w
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CHAPTER NINE MATINLOC ISLAND, PALAW
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palm tree, still laughing. “Oh, c
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myself for a while longer before I
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CHAPTER TEN ANTWERP, BELGIUM Kitty
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to guess that the couple were an En
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Liechtenburg Group,” Kitty proudl
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and aahed when they reached the lil
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Alexander’s, the ravishing new re
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“We’re attracting royalty alrea
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS SPECIAL THANKS I am
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kevin Kwan