Midnight in Peking: how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China
True crime, History, Asian history
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Historian reconstructs events surrounding the 1937 murder of twenty-year-old Briton Pamela Werner in Peking, China, just before the Japanese occupation. Chronicles the discovery of Werner's body, the failure of Chinese and British police to find her killers, and her father's own investigation during internment by the invaders. Some violence. 2011
Title Details
ISBN
9780143121008
Publisher
Penguin Books
Copyright Date
2012
Book number
4406515
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Gregory Maupin
Duration
8 hours 25 minutes 59 seconds
Audio producer
American Printing House for the Blind