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A Death in Peking: Who Really Killed Pamela Werner

1937 ... an eventful year

12/23/2018

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The Hindenburg airship explodes over New Jersey

1937. In January, Pamela's body was found beneath the city wall. It was the start of an eventful year across the world, for good and bad.

Right. July, and Peking saw the start of the war between China and the invading Japanese, in which millions were to die.

Pictured are a few other 1937 world events while police in Peking investigated the Werner murder.
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Roosevelt begins second term as US President
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Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific Ocean

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Slaughter continues in the Spanish Civil War
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The Windsors marry after the abdication

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Neville Chamberlain becomes UK Prime Minister
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USSR: a young execution victim of Stalin's great purge

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JRR Tolkein publishes The Hobbit
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Daffy Duck first appears on the big screen
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    Graeme Sheppard

    Author of the new book, A Death in Peking, published by Earnshaw Books.

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