Midnight in Peking

The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China

De: Paul French

Narrado por: Crawford Logan

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Paul Frenchs’ Midnight in Peking, a gripping, true murder mystery story read by the actor Crawford Logan.

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 unpause-able story of a savage murder, Midnight in Peking is a sweepingly evocative account of the end of an era.

©2012 Paul French (P)2012 Penguin Audio

1st time listing to one of Paul Frenchs books and really enjoyed

Would highly recommend, great story and narration. After I I finished I immediately purchased another of this books.

true story fascinating

Where does Midnight in Peking rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

the top 8

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

really wanted to find out how it ends

Which scene was your favorite?

Description of old Peking and the Fox tower

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes

Any additional comments?

SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN CRIME FICTION

Credit to Paul French for the writing

A great many Imperial Brits have had little to make them proud people. Protection and cover up in the past is just as horrible as it is today.
This is a story that had to be told. What I found so interesting was how much was discovered during the tumultuous '30's as Japan was invading China.
If not already done, this cries out to be made into a good mini series. A movie would have to delete too much detail.
China at the time was a home to Russians having escapied the Revolution, Germans the increasing horror of the Nazis, the fall of Emperors, the rise of greedy capitalists and the hopes of the Red Army and the Long March. All this and the old Triads. In amongst all of this one young woman is murdered. This is her story.