Midnight in peking5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() " Midnight in Peking is true-crime writing at its best, full of vivid characters, an exotic locale, secrets galore, and a truly bewildering mystery." The Christian Science Monitor " the most talked-about read in town this year." The New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog This is a genre-breaker that captures the atmosphere of 1930s Peking." The Bookseller "A page-turning and fascinating true crime book. is a wonderfully dexterous guide" Jonathan Spence in The New York Review of Books " Midnight in Peking is both a detective story and a social history, and therefore as it should always keeps the hunt for Pamela's killers somewhere near the center of the narrative. "Never less than fascinating one of the best portraits of between-the-wars China that has yet been written." The Wall Street Journal ![]()
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