Melville Jacoby on the Pamela Werner Murder

My thanks to Bill Lascher, who is currently researching a new biography of the great American China correspondent Melville Jacoby, sadly killed in a plane crash during World War Two. Bill has already published a short piece of Jacoby’s writing from Chungking during the war as an e-book Monsieur Big Hat.

As his research progresses he is turning up lots of fascinating details about Jacoby’s time in China – this from a letter Melville wrote in July 1937 from Peking to his parents which will interest anyone who’s read Midnight in Peking and is familiar with the murder of Pamela Werner…

“Then there was a brutal killing of an English girl a few months back just after an argument. Lots of undercover work up here that doesn’t receive publicity but comes to light now. Some naturally is untrue.”