THE NOT-GOOD MAN
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THE NOT-GOOD MAN Book 1
6 parts · 20 h 41 min
Chang'an, 752. Chang Nine is a licensed thief-catcher — a not-good man, which is the actual job title — living six flights above the West Market's drum in a room he pays for in unpaid nights. A woman comes out of the canal and the county wants her signed off as a drowning before the closing gong.
THE NOT-GOOD MAN Book 2
4 parts · 18 h 44 min
Chang'an, 752. Tea has been drunk in the north for about eleven years and nobody knows yet what it is worth. Chang Nine is a licensed thief-catcher who works out of a market tower, is paid badly and late, and writes his cases up afterward because he has no other format.
THE NOT-GOOD MAN Book 3
5 parts · 17 h 21 min
Chang'an, 753. The dead chancellor is being dug up and stripped of his jade, and the accusation being used to do it is that he plotted with a Turkic chief who broke away last year — and that chief's horses have been coming apart across the northern frontier for eight months.
THE NOT-GOOD MAN Book 4
6 parts · 15 h 52 min
Chang'an, 753. The metropolitan region has flooded, the harvest has failed, and the chancellor has shown the emperor good ears of grain and explained that the rain did no harm. Chang Nine needs a very large sum by a fixed date, because an aunt has named a figure and a magistrate's daughter is at the other end of it.
THE NOT-GOOD MAN Book 5
5 parts · 17 h 35 min
Chang'an, 754. Chang Nine is not hired any more; he is sent.
THE NOT-GOOD MAN Book 6
4 parts · 17 h 43 min
Chang'an, winter 754. The chancellor is hunting a northern general's people in the capital, and the instrument of the hunt is the household register, because the register is what the state has.
THE NOT-GOOD MAN Book 7
3 parts · 19 h 14 min
Chang'an, 755. In the money row stands the safest place in the West Market: a deposit shop founded by a man's grandfather with a table and a strongbox, which has not lost anybody's money in a hundred and forty years. Chang Nine's mother has used it for forty of them.
THE NOT-GOOD MAN Book 8
4 parts · 15 h 39 min
Chang'an, winter 755. Three thousand li away an army marches, and nobody in the capital knows for six days — and when the news comes it arrives as the price of millet two days before it arrives as a fact.