When we were orphans

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country`s most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realises the time has come to him to return to the city of his childhood and last solve the mystery . that only by his doing so will civilisation be saved from the approaching catastrophe.