Foreign Detectives

1)Death of a Red Heroine by Qui Xiaolong is a Chinese detective novel about detective Chen who is investigating a female workers death which leads him into a a dangerous political scandal and which threatens his life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Red_Heroine

2)Seicho Matsumoto is a Japanese crime author who had over 40 major works in his career and had won many awards for his writings up until his death in 1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seichō_Matsumoto#Major_works