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Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA NonFiction DaggerPeking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal opulence and opium dens rumors and superstition The Japanese are encircling the city and the discovery of Pamela Werners body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking Is it the work of a madman One of the ruthless Japanese soldiers now surrounding the city Or perhaps the dreaded fox spirits With the suspect list growing and clues sparse two detectivesone British and one Chineserace against the clock to solve the crime before the Japanese invade and Peking as they know it is gone forever Can they find the killer in time before the Japanese invadeHistorian and China expert Paul French at last uncovers the truth behind this notorious murder and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking
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An evocative account by Paul French author of the acclaimednbspMidnight in Peking of the infamous nightlife district of precommunist Beijing Through portraits of eight White Russians Americans and Europeans who lived and worked in the Badlands in the 1920s and 1930s Paul French brings the area and its era vividly to life A small warren of narrownbsphutongs the Badlands sat just inside the eastern flank of the Tartar Wall which at that time enclosed the old Imperial City of Peking Its habitués were a mix of the good the bad and the poor unfortunates among them the fiery brothel madams Brana Shazker and Rosie Gerbert the pimp Saxsen who had no regard for the women he exploited and the young prostitutes Marie and Peggy whose dreadful working lives drove them into separate pits of madness and addiction There was the cabaret dancer Tatiana Korovina a White Russian girl who did not succumb to the vice of the district but instead married had a family and eventually left China to lead a long and happy life There was the American Joe Knauf who dealt violence and fear as well as drugs and finally the enigmatic Shura Giraldi of indeterminate sex who was to some a charmer and to others a master criminal but to everyone the uncrowned King of the Badlands
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The brutal murder of 19yearold Pamela Werner in the city of Peking one night in January 1937 shocked the world but the police never found or named the murderer A bestselling book Midnight in Peking declared the murderer to be an American dentist but English policeman Graeme Sheppard 30 years with Scotland Yard decided that conclusion was flawed spent years investigating all aspects of the case and came up with an entirely different conclusion So who did it Who killed Pamela This book provides neverrevealed evidence and a different perpetrator
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