Midnight in Peking
Subtitle: how the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of old China
By: Paul French
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780143121008
Subjects: Murder; Case studies; History
Table of contents: title: The approaching storm; title: The body at the Fox Tower; title: The police of Peking; title: Wild dogs and diplomats; title: The investigation; title: Pamela; title: An old China hand; title: Armour factory alley; title: Cocktail hour at the Wagons Lits; title: Into the Badlands; title: Of rats and men; title: Under Peking earth; title: A respectable man of influence; title: Radical chic; title: The element of fire; title: The rising sun that chills; title: Journey to the underworld; title: Chuanpan Hutong; title: The hunters; title: Invitation to a party; title: The wound that wouldn't heal; title: The writing of midnight in Peking; title: Acknowledgments; title: Sources.