Midnight in peking6/2/2023 The mysterious and seemingly motiveless killing of a young English girl by a spirit-haunted gate in Peking is much more than it appears.”- Margaret George, author of Elizabeth I: A Novel “Simply marvelous! An atmospheric who-done-it in which the setting is pre-communist China, incorporating the last tottering edges of the British empire, a cast of enigmatic foreigners, and Peking bracing as Japan invades and brings the last of Old China to its knees. I couldn”t put it down."- John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil It is a feat comparable to that of White Mischief. In doing so, he draws a chilling portrait of the city”s decadent, violent and overly-privileged Euro-American expatriate community. "Clue by clue, Paul French uncovers the truth of a bizarre murder case that shocked Peking in 1937.
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