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

Paul French

Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger Peking 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 Werner's body sends a shiver through alre...

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RedHanded

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RedHanded

The book was a critical and commercial success and was assumed to be the definitive guide to Pamela Werner's death, but some believe that it contains too much poetic license.

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The book was a huge critical and commercial success and was assumed to be the definitive guide to Pamela Werner's death.

— Episode: Episode 349 - A Death in Old Peking

Episode: Episode 349 - A Death in Old Peking

The book was a critical and commercial success and was assumed to be the definitive guide to Pamela Werner's death, but some believe that it contains too much poetic license.

"

The book was a huge critical and commercial success and was assumed to be the definitive guide to Pamela Werner's death.

So he wrote his own book much to the delight of his wife I'm sure.

Shepard takes issue with pretty much everything else French says.

Shepard thought the Prentiss sex ring brothel story was absolute horseshit.

Shepard says that Werner first selected his suspects and then paid Chinese agents to find evidence to support his theories.

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