Books
Monday, 19 October 2009 11:10
Written by JFK Miller

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Local scribe Paul French's next book is shaping up to be a cracker. A Peking Murder: Or Murder at Fox Tower is a true crime story about the brutal murder of a 16-year-old English girl, Pamela Werner, in 1936. It was a crime that shocked the international community – already terrified by Japanese troops surrounding the city and poised to invade. French uncovers Werner's double life – by week, a happy schoolgirl, by weekend, a member of an underground swingers club and sexual cult – and seeks to solve the mystery of a 73-year-old crime lost in the turmoil of invasion and revolution that followed in its wake. The book – out next year – will be among the first of a new English language publishing program by Penguin China. We understand that talks have already begun to turn the book into a film… *cue Hollywood trailer* From the best selling book by Paul French... a story of a forbidden city, forbidden lust…

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