Locals believe The Fox Tower is haunted by fox spirits and are reasonably wary of its outwardly supernatural presence. The Fox Tower, the city’s old watchtower erected in the 15th century, is where Pamela’s body is found on a frigid January morning, the morning after a celebration of Russian Christmas. Living in the foreigners-only area of Peking, known as the Legation Quarter where “the great powers of Europe, America, and Japan had their embassies and consulates,” they are surrounded by a city that was the jewel of old China rich, prized, and targeted by warlords. Werner, are British citizens residing in Peking in a time of civil and political unrest. The ensuing hunt for the killer responsible for the brutal, malicious death of Pamela Werner, a 19-year-old British schoolgirl residing in a foreign land with her professorial father, is the core of Paul French’s expertly crafted research and investigation into the nefarious details of this true crime. On the cusp of World War II and surrounded by nations with a vested interest in the country for reasons both political and military-Britain, Japan, Russia, Communists-the last thing Peking needed was the mutilated body of a foreign girl thrown out at the base of the city’s most recognizable landmark, The Fox Tower.īut that is exactly what happened a proverbial match struck to a powder keg of a city.
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