The RAS Shanghai Book Club on Midnight in Peking

It was a gruelling four hours of questioning, a lengthy time to be under the spotlight as the members of the RAS Shanghai Book Club grilled me on the details of the murder of Pamela Werner, 1937 Peking, the police investigation, my investigation and that most mysterious thing of all…my prose style!! Still, despite being jetlagged and having had a long day it was brilliant that the RAS Book Club was oversubscribed and so we had two two-hour sessions instead of one! The Puli Hotel library was a great venue too. A massive thanks to the Royal Asiatic Society for organising it and for all those who came – it’s amazing to meet readers who have shared your fascination, horror and anger at what happened to Pamela in 1937.