# Midnight in Peking

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- Book: [Midnight in Peking](https://www.bookquiver.com/isaac-asimov/midnight-in-peking) ([Midnight in Peking.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/isaac-asimov/midnight-in-peking.md))
- Authors: [Isaac Asimov](https://www.bookquiver.com/isaac-asimov)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-717-2
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2013-04-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Peking, 1937. The teenage daughter of a British consul is brutally slaughtered. The police investigation is botched as war looms; British and Chinese authorities close ranks. A grieving father vows to uncover the truth - alone. Seventy-five years later, historian Paul French uncovers a stash of forgotten documents revealing the killer's identity . . .