The Shanghai Mansion Nobody Wanted

1937 Shanghai and gangsters running wild in the chaos of the Japanese attack on the city – kidnapping, extorting, selling drugs, robbing banks and post offices, raiding rich homes – but here’s a novel one I’ve never heard of before – planting a bomb in a house, asking for $30,000 and if you don’t pay up exploding it. It was probably a ruse – a chancer’s chance but seems nobody wanted to take the risk that it just might be for real and so the mansion (address sadly omitted – though, Shanghai being Shanghai, probably long bulldozed to make way for a crap apartment building or shit shopping mall) stayed empty, unlet, unsold and unlived in….