Format:
Book
Title:
Midnight in Peking : how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China / Paul French.
Author:
French, Paul, 1966-
Call Number:
364.152309 FRENCH
Publisher, Date:
New York : Penguin Books, c2012.
Description:
p. cm.
Subjects:
Murder -- China -- Beijing -- Case studies.
Contents:
The approaching storm -- The body at the Fox Tower -- The police of Peking -- Wild dogs and diplomats -- The investigation -- Pamela -- An old China hand -- Armour factory alley -- Cocktail hour at the Wagons Lits -- Into the Badlands -- Of rats and men -- Under Peking earth -- A respectable man of influence -- Radical chic -- The element of fire -- The rising sun that chills -- Journey to the underworld -- Chuanpan Hutong -- The hunters -- Invitation to a party -- The wound that wouldn't heal -- The writing of midnight in Peking -- Acknowledgments -- Sources.
ISBN:
0143121006
9780143121008