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The first in Marshall's unforgettable, classic series of police procedurals – suspenseful and hilarious in equal measure.
Yellowthread Street is the sort of place that breeds more crime than any cops can handle.
Among the gangsters and the goldsmiths of Hong Bay, Chief Inspector Feiffer and his police department had their hands full ... tourist troubles, a US sailor turned stick-up artist, and the jealous Chinese who solved his marital difficulties with an axe.
Then the Mongolian with a kukri brought an extra touch of terror to the district ...
Yellowthread Street brings to vivid life a seamy world where people called Osaka Oniki the Disemboweller, Shotgun Sen and The Chopper feel at home, a world of surreal possibility recorded with unique humour and a poignant sense of humanity.
About the Author
William Marshall is an Australian author, best known for his Hong Kong-based "Yellowthread Street" mystery novels, some of which were used as the basis for a British TV series. William Marshall worked as a playwright, journalist, proofreader, and morgue attendant and was a teacher in an Irish prison.
Industry Reviews
"Marshall has the rare gift of juggling scary suspense and wild humor and making them both work." Washington Post Book World
"Marshall's style - blending the hilarious, the surreal, and the poignant - remains inimitable and not easily resisted." San Francisco Chronicle
"Marshall has few peers as an author who melds the wildest comedy and tragedy in narratives of nonstop action." Publishers Weekly
"Marshall is building a growing, iconoclastic body of work that mixes weird fantasy [and] wayward characterization . . . to produce a subtle, charged, atmospheric, lush fiction hybrid sure to satisfy those with a taste for mysteries on the far edges." Philadelphia Inquirer
"Despite the wild humor, Marshall's stories contain excellent police procedure, real suspense, and fine irony . . . incessantly scary." Chicago Tribune
"Among the best police procedural series on the market." Detroit Free Press
"As an inspired poet of the bizarre, [Marshall] orchestrates underlying insanity into an apocalyptic vision of the future." New York Times Book Review
"Marshall's novels feature seemingly supernatural events that turn out to have logical, if not precisely rational, origins. He has savage fun with police procedure." TIME
"Nobody rivals Marshall's ability to expose the links between comic hysteria and the most mundane human foibles, from greed to cowardice to simple funk." Kirkus Reviews
"Moves at the speed of a bullet; don't read it aloud or you'll run out of breath." Chicago Sun-Times
ISBN: 9781911440963
ISBN-10: 1911440969
Series: Yellowthread Street Mystery : Book 1
Published: 24th January 2019
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 162
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Duckworth Books
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 12.9 x 19.7 x 1.1
Weight (kg): 0.16
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