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'Midnight in Peking: The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China' by Paul French. |
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| Description | Who killed Pamela Werner? On a frozen night in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the teenage daughter of the city's former British consul Edward Werner. Her heart had been removed. A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamela's killer, with a Chinese-British detective team pursuing suspects including a blood-soaked rickshaw puller, the Triads, and a lascivious grammar school headmaster. But the case was soon forgotten amid the carnage of the Japanese invasion...by all but Edward Werner. With a network of private investigators and informers, he followed the trail deep into Peking's notorious Badlands and back to the gilded hotels of the colonial Quarter. Some 75 years later, deep in the Scotland Yard archives, British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file prepared by Edward Werner. Unveiling an undercover sex cult, heroin addicts and disappearing brothels, the truth behind the crime can now be told - and is more disturbing than anyone could imagine. Not just the unputdownable story of a savage murder, "Midnight in Peking" is a sweepingly evocative account of the end of an era. -- penguin.co.uk. | | Release Date | 2012 | | Author | Paul French | | Format | Dimensions 15.3x22.0x2.0 cm
345 pages
book | | Publisher | Penguin UK | | Subject(s) | History / General
History / Asia / China
True Crime / General
True Crime / Murder / General |
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