Pre-Owned Midnight in Peking (Paperback) by Paul French

from BillPilgrim

The story of a young British woman who is murdered in Peking just before the start of World War 2. This book works both for the historical crime story that it tells and for its description of life in China at that time, particularly that of the foreigners who were there in diplomatic, business or...

from seasidereader

This well-constructed narrative will appeal to true crime fans. Spoiler alert -- it was very disappointing that the victim's father seemed be a poster child for "..doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." He had the means at his disposal to effect, if not justice...

from RebeccaGraf

How much of history is a blurb in a book or document and never investigated further? How much history gets lost that would actually open the doors of the past up further? Paul French explores this through his book, Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days o...

from bezoar44

True crime more than history, this book recounts the inconclusive official investigation into the murder of a young European woman in Beijing in 1937, just shortly before the Japanese occupied the city. The last third of the book, based heavily on the obsessive research of the victim's father (We...

from tangledthread

Midnight in Peking is a true-crime story based in Peking in 1937-38 during the impending Japanese occupation. A young British woman is brutally murdered and found at the base of the Fox tower in Peking on the morning after Russian Christmas, 1937. The victim, Pamela Werner, is the adopted daughte...