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Midnight in Peking : how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China / Paul French.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HV6535.C43 F74 2012
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Van Pelt Library HV6535.C43 F74 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- French, Paul, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--China--Beijing--Case studies.
- Murder.
- Beijing (China)--History--20th century.
- Beijing (China).
- China--Beijing.
- Genre:
- True crime stories.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)
- Case studies.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 260 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, [2012]
- Summary:
- Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious unsolved 1937 murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking.
- Contents:
- The approaching storm
- The body at the Fox Tower
- The police of Peking
- Wild dogs and diplomats
- The investigation
- Pamela
- An old China hand
- Armour factory alley
- Cocktail hour at the Wagons Lits
- Into the Badlands
- Of rats and men
- Under Peking earth
- A respectable man of influence
- Radical chic
- The element of fire
- The rising sun that chills
- Journey to the underworld
- Chuanpan Hutong
- The hunters
- Invitation to a party
- The wound that wouldn't heal
- The writing of midnight in Peking
- Acknowledgments
- Sources.
- Notes:
- includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259).
- Reading group guide available online.
- ISBN:
- 0143121006
- 9780143121008
- OCLC:
- 757469987
- Publisher Number:
- 99948572710
- Online:
- Reading group guide
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