Nury Vittachi is a Hong Kong-based journalist and author and man-about-town whose most recent comedy-crime novels The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics (2006) and Mr. Wong Goes West (2008) have been published in several languages. They are part of the popular Feng Shui Detective series. Vittachi has also written non-fiction works and novels for children, including The Day It Rained Letters (2005) and the Jeri Telstar series (2008).