Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China

A Penguin Books hardcover in fine condition. Boards are clean, bright, and square throughout with no wear to the spine, corners, or edges. Dust jacket is bright, crisp, and undamaged, fine in all respects with no tears, chips, fading, or soiling. Pages are fresh and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. Published by Penguin Books, New York, in 2012, the first printing of the revised edition, incorporating additional research beyond the original Australian publication of 2011, Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China is the award-winning true crime investigation by historian and China expert Paul French. The book won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime from the Mystery Writers of America and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom. Based on seven years of archival research, the book reconstructs the true story of the murder of Pamela Werner, a British schoolgirl whose mutilated body was discovered at the base of Peking's ancient Fox Tower on a bitter night in January 1937. Chinese detective Colonel Han and Scotland Yard-trained DCI Richard Dennis lead the official investigation — obstructed at every turn by British officials protecting their prestige and the city's foreign enclave — until the case is formally closed as unsolved. But Pamela's father, E.T.C. Werner, a German diplomat and sinologist, refuses to accept the verdict, pouring his remaining fortune into a private investigation that comes closer to the truth than the official inquiry ever did. Paul French holds an MPhil from the University of Glasgow, lives in Shanghai, and writes for the Financial Times, CNN, and the South China Morning Post.