Who killed Pamela Werner? A policeman reconsiders a sensational murder in old Peking and arrives at a new conclusion. The brutal murder of 19-year-old Pamela in Peking one night in January 1937 shocked the world, but the police never named the murderer. The best-selling book Midnight in Peking declared the perpetrator to be an American dentist, but a British policeman decided that conclusion was flawed and spent years investigating the case. So who did it? Original.