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Assassination
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Best Book Award from American Book Fest winner
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Foreword INDIES Book Award finalist
Government Sponsored Murder
Harbin
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Japanese History
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Manchuria
Murder
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Semyon Kaspe
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True Crime
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Product details
- ISBN 9781640125841
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Gold Medal for the 2024 IPPY Award
Winner of the 2023 Best Book Award from American Book Fest
Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book Award
In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria-an area some called China’s “Wild East”-and an explosive mixture of nationalities, religions, and ideologies. Semyon KaspÉ, a young Jewish musician, is kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by disaffected, antisemitic White Russians, secretly acting on the orders of Japanese military overlords who covet his father’s wealth. When local authorities deliberately slow-walk the search for the kidnappers, a young French diplomat takes over and launches his own investigation.
Part cold-case thriller and part social history, the true, tragic saga of KaspÉ is told in the context of the larger, improbable story of the lives of the twenty thousand Jews who called Harbin home at the beginning of the twentieth century. Scott D. Seligman recounts the events that led to their arrival and their hasty exodus-and solves a crime that has puzzled historians for decades.
Winner of the 2023 Best Book Award from American Book Fest
Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book Award
In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria-an area some called China’s “Wild East”-and an explosive mixture of nationalities, religions, and ideologies. Semyon KaspÉ, a young Jewish musician, is kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by disaffected, antisemitic White Russians, secretly acting on the orders of Japanese military overlords who covet his father’s wealth. When local authorities deliberately slow-walk the search for the kidnappers, a young French diplomat takes over and launches his own investigation.
Part cold-case thriller and part social history, the true, tragic saga of KaspÉ is told in the context of the larger, improbable story of the lives of the twenty thousand Jews who called Harbin home at the beginning of the twentieth century. Scott D. Seligman recounts the events that led to their arrival and their hasty exodus-and solves a crime that has puzzled historians for decades.
Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the national award-winning author of numerous books, including The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City (Potomac, 2020), The Third Degree: The Triple Murder that Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice (Potomac, 2018), and The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo.
