Midnight in Peking
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A father hunts for his daughter's killer in the gripping true story
"Midnight in Peking" by Paul French -which finally solves the case.
On a frozen morning 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 ETC 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 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. 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. 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.
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