Episode 349 - A Death in Old Peking
The state of Pamela Werner’s body alone would have been enough to send 1930s Peking into a frenzy. She’d been frantically stabbed, her chest cut wide open, and four of her internal organs had been precisely removed...
But Pamela was the daughter of a high-ranking British diplomat. And the death of a white girl in the ancient Chinese capital, in 1939 – when anti-foreigner revolts were bubbling and the entire country was under threat of invasion by Japan – rocked the city, in the last days of old China.
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Sources:
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China - Paul French, 1996
(ISBN: 1101580380)
A Death in Peking: Who Killed Pamela Werner - Graeme Sheppard, 2022 (ISBN: 9888422944)
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