Midnight in Peking

Paul French investigates the January 1937 murder of young Englishwoman Pamela Werner, whose mutilated body was discovered near the old city wall of Peking. The book vividly recreates the foreign quarter's colonial decadence on the eve of Japanese invasion and pursues a long-buried solution to a crime that haunted her diplomat father for the rest of his life.

ISBN 9780143121008 · Penguin · 2012