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Some 75 years later, deep in the Scotland Yard archives, British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file prepared by ETC 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. But the case was soon forgotten amid the carnage of the Japanese all but ETC Werner. 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. It was Pamela Werner, the teenage daughter of the city's former British consul ETC Werner. On a frozen morning in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted watchtower. A father hunts for his daughter's killer in the gripping true story "Midnight in Peking" by Paul French -which finally solves the case. He is a widely published analyst and commentator on China his books include a history of North Korea, a biography of Shanghai adman and adventurer Carl Crow, and a history of foreign correspondents in China.Soft cover. it sucks the reader in like the best fiction' Scotsmanīorn in London, Paul French has lived in China for more than 10 years. It is the storytelling flair that marks Midnight in Peking so highly: with its false leads and twists. John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil He tells this tale with the skill of an Agatha Christie' Financial Times it is French's enormous achievement that he pieces together the puzzle. 'Part historical docudrama, part tragic opera. drawing the reader from the very first pages into an unwholesome, macabre world' Guardian

įor those who loved The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil this is a riveting and evocative true crime classic. Seventy-five years later, historian Paul French uncovers a stash of forgotten documents revealing the killer's identity. A grieving father vows to uncover the truth - alone. The police investigation is botched as war looms British and Chinese authorities close ranks. The teenage daughter of a British consul is brutally slaughtered.

Hurtles along from one cliffhanger to the next' Spectator 'A first-rate murder story, a thrilling narrative. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 Midnight in Peking is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul French