Midnight in Peking
The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China
«An instant true crime classic. Grips from the first page to the last»
David Peace, author of Red Riding and The Damned United
Peking, 1937: The teenage daughter of a British consul is brutally slaughtered. The police investigation is botched; as war looms British and Chinese authorities close ranks. A grieving father vows to uncover the truth - alone. Les mer
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Peking, 1937: The teenage daughter of a British consul is brutally slaughtered. The police investigation is botched; as war looms British and Chinese authorities close ranks. A grieving father vows to uncover the truth - alone. Seventy-five years later, historian Paul French uncovers a stash of forgotten documents revealing the killer's identity.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780241957172
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Winner of CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2013.
Anmeldelser
«An instant true crime classic. Grips from the first page to the last»
David Peace, author of Red Riding and The Damned United
«Fascinating and irresistible. I couldn't put it down»
John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
«Written in the style of a gripping murder mystery, but all the facts are true»
Kirsty Lang, BBC Radio 4 (Book of the Week)
«Engrossing true crime whodunnit... A terrific read»
Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
«Not only does Mr French succeed in solving the crime, he resurrects a period that was filled with glitter as well as evil»
The Economist
«French has an easygoing prose style... well chosen quotes bring a new vigour and crispness... [He] succeeds in giving voice to a tragic quest for justice»
Sunday Telegraph
«It is the storytelling flair that marks Midnight in Peking so highly above the run-of-the-mill true crime stories: with its false leads and twists, it sucks the reader in like the best fiction»
The Scotsman
«The shocking true tale, combined with prose you can't drag yourself away from, makes Midnight in Peking a work of non fiction as compulsive as any bestselling crime novel. It also brings justice at last for a young woman whose murder nearly went unsolved»
Sunday Express
«Terrific, engrossing ... a gruesome tale of a hitherto forgotten case, and of the sheer tenacity of a grieving father»
Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller