Front-page news around the world when the story was first reported, Midnight in Peking at last uncovers the truth behind this notorious murder, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking. Also by Paul French Praise for Midnight in Peking An instant true crime classic which grips and hooks from the first page to the last. Historian Paul French spent seven years researching this dramatic true story in Archives in both China and the United Kingdom. In his novel, Midnight in Peking, author Paul French has unravelled one of the capital’s most gruesome murder mysteries that of Englishwoman Pamela Werner who was found on Russian Christmas 1937 with her heart ripped out of her chest. Is it the work of a madman? One of the ruthless Japanese soldiers now surrounding the city? Or perhaps the dreaded fox spirits? Was it a case of mistaken identity? Two detectives, British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han, team up to solve the case, battling time and the meddling of their respective bureaucracies. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through an already nervous Peking. Who could commit such a crime? Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumor and superstition. Paul French tells David Robinson how he can. On a frigid morning in January 1937, the mutilated body of a British schoolgirl is discovered at the base of the Fox Tower. Pamela Werner was 19 when her heart and her body were left under a ‘haunted watchtower’ in Peking in 1937.
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