Midnight in Peking

ISBN: 9780670921072 Categorii: Diverse. An apariție: 2012 Autor: Paul French Editură: Penguin Books Tip copertă: Paperback Număr pagini: 272 Stoc: La comandă

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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.

Limba
Engleza
Autor
Paul French
Data Publicarii
2012
Editura
Penguin Books
Tip Coperta
Paperback
Nr Pag
272
Isbn 13
9780670921072
Cod
9780670921072
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