Originally published: Australia: Viking, 2011 London: Viking, 2012Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:03:52 Boxid IA1939722 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Not just the unputdownable story of a savage murder, 'Midnight in Peking' is a sweepingly evocative account of the end of an era.

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. 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. 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 Edward 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 Edward Werner. 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.

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