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“A Yellowthread Street Mystery”

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  • Yellowthread Street

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 1 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Hatchet Man

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 2 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    Postman Lawrence Shang was watching a film called The Axeman of Shanghai when his life abruptly ended. Carpet trader Edward Peng was enjoying The Last Picture Show. Death in both cases was instantaneous, caused by a small calibre handgun used at a range of two feet.With their deaths begins a series of apparently motiveless murders in one cinema after another across the Hong Bay district of Hong ... Read more

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  • Gelignite

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 3 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    In the seamy Hong Bay district of Hong Kong, crimes of every shape and size were commonplace. But not letter bombs. Not till Mr Leung and Mr Ramaswamy were successively spread bloodily over the office walls.When Detective Inspector Spencer narrowly escaped becoming victim number 3, the Yellowthread Street police were grimly determined to track down the culprit – before the Special Branch got to ... Read more

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  • Thin Air

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 4 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    A planeful of passengers dead from cyanide poisoning. Twelve bodies riddled with bullets in the sewers of Hong Kong. And one evil genius who outwits the cops at every turn . . .The voice on the phone is cool – and vicious. His threat: a continued escalation of terrorism until his blackmailing demands are met. For Chief Harry Feiffer and his crew at the Yellowthread Street Police Station in the ... Read more

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  • Skulduggery

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 5 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    “An inspired poet of the bizarre” – New York Times Book ReviewOut of the mist-enshrouded sea a wooden raft drifts slowly into shore on Hong Bay beach. It carries no sail or rudder, just a selection of miscellaneous objects: a man’s skeleton with its ankles roped together, a dead fish, a mound of sweet potatoes, a set of false teeth and a ten-inch length of blue galvanised iron drainpipe.The morgue ... Read more

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  • Sci Fi

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 6 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    Batman is throwing up in one cell, while the Green Slime keeps escaping from another. Constable Yan is locked in combat with the Incredible Hulk – or is it Wonder Woman? Yes, the Sci Fi and Horror Movie convention has come to Hong Kong and an awful lot (literally) of the aliens have landed in the Hong Bay nick. It’s the usual chaos, with added Martians.But then a Spaceman with a terrifying flame ... Read more

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  • Perfect End

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 7 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    What killed every policeman in Fade Street Station?Their six mutilated bodies were found in the basement, lined up like wine bottles, and there are giant claw marks on the walls. Every object and surface in the station has been wiped clean…and the only witness, a vagrant, claims the murderer was a giant cat who walked like a man.Impossible to believe, yet in William Marshall’s kaleidoscopic vision ... Read more

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  • War Machine

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 8 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    A terrorist has declared war on Hong Kong.It starts with mysterious gunfire in the harbour. Then come the atrocities: bombs, snipers and an ominous telephone warning. A Japanese man with an antiquated accent proclaims a “divine mission to eradicate all the uniformed forces of colonial depression”.The enemy is hidden deep, and nobody knows where to start looking.Time for detectives Christopher O ... Read more

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  • Roadshow

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 10 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    Every attack makes the traffic flow faster.Isandula Street is flooded when a bomb destroys a water mains. On General Gordon Street, hidden explosives decapitate a row of parking meters. Detectives Christopher O’Yee and Harry Feiffer suspect a dangerous practical joker at play.The third bomb leaves seventeen charred corpses strewn across Sepoy Street. The joke isn’t funny anymore.The very fabric of ... Read more

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  • The Far Away Man

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 9 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    His eyes are pale and expressionless. His intent is deadly.The Far Away Man kills with an antique; an 1891 single-shot target pistol. A single shot is all that he needs. His first victim is a shoe-shine man of no fixed abode. His second, an aristocratic naval officer. His third, a Chinese fortune teller. The only thing that ties the crimes together: a bundle of faded cholera vaccination ... Read more

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  • Frogmouth

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 12 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    What kind of maniac would massacre a zoo?Every animal in Yat’s children’s zoo has been killed with a machete and a crowbar. Not even the toothless old dog which sat beside the wishing chair has been spared. The act is cruel and unfathomable. More shocking than any ordinary murder. The only clue is a strange, tawny feather, accidentally discarded at the scene of the crime.In one of the darkest and ... Read more

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  • Head First

    by William Marshall ...
    Series Book 11 - A Yellowthread Street Mystery
    Not even the dead can escape the Resurrection squad.A Chinese coffin surfaces in Hong Bay. Wrapped in a shroud, a headless body drifts out from under its lacquered lid. Forensics reports that the neck was coated with animal glue. Whatever was stolen from the casket, it was not a human head. Then the grave robbing begins.There are few crimes the citizens of Hong Bay fear more than the desecration ... Read more

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