On January 8 1937 Pamela Werner was brutally murdered, but where? Paul French and Graeme Sheppard have different ideas on where Pamela’s body was found, one says at the foot of the infamous fox tower, the other inside the old inner city close to the German cemetery.

When the eight allied nations occupied Beijing in the year 1900 not many of the Chinese residents spoke a foreign tongue. A courtesan named Sai Jinhua spoke some German and this would elevate her into the very unlikely position of a heroine.