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Title: Death in Shanghai; Author: M.J. Lee; Publisher: HQ/Harper Collins; Pages: 378; Price: Rs 399 Justice may be the aim of law and order but may not always happen in the real world, where many other considerations play a role. Take the colonial era, where maintaining prestige of the rulers was paramount over any other factor -- even when bodies of murder victims killed in horrible ways are stacking up. M.J. Lee uses this cynical colonial mindset to great effect in a spell-binding mystery in the unique setting of Shanghai of the 1920s -- when it is the among the…