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. It was Pamela
Werner, the teenage daughter of the city’s former British consul Edward 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 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.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. 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.
Scores on the doors:
Jane 8
Pauline C 8
Elaine E 8
Rebecca H 8
Janet J 8
Janine J 6
Sally M 9
Cai M 8
Christine P 8
Trude S. 7
June T 8