"Remembering her in a book - 80 years after her death - is a sort of justice, perhaps"

...so says Paul French of Pamela Werner - the unfortunate subject of his bestselling true-crime whodunnit, 'Midnight in Peking.'

Pamela's grisly murder in 1937 shocked the world and made headlines around the globe. But as Beijing teetered on the edge of war with Japan, the girl's death - and the search for her killer - were soon forgotten.

"It's an unsolved murder, and there's something that offends all of us about people getting away with murder," adds French. "Pamela was just 19, becoming a woman, about to leave for university and life beyond the hutongs of Peking when she was killed, butchered and left for dead on a cold night.

"But crime is also a way to lift the lid on a society - in this case Peking's foreign community in the 1930s - with both its socially acceptable and socially disreputable sides. It's where these two slices of society intersect that's really fascinating."

In an attempt to recreate the events of that night in January 1937, Bespoke's Official Midnight in Peking Walking Tour follows in the footsteps of the girl's devastated father as he searched for Pamela, and tells the remarkable story of what happened next.

Hot on the heels of a series of Midnight in Peking Walking Tours co-led by the author himself in March, historian and long-term Bespoke collaborator Lars Ulrik Thom will once again take the reigns next Saturday, June 30th, sharing his groundbreaking additional research into the case.

Tickets cost 388 RMB and include a post-walk cocktail and a donation to Equality, an organization helping victims of domestic violence in China. For more information or to register, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/O6OHkmc6N7FTy1cJXehJ-w