Midnight in Peking : how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China
(2012)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
364.1523/FRENCH,P

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 364.1523/FRENCH,P Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, [2012]
©2012
DESCRIPTION

260 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780143121008, 0143121006
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking