The Bandy Papers 9
Stalin Vs. Me
Donald Jack
Somehow, despite his advancing years and receding hairline, veteran airman Bart Bandy has plummeted through the ranks and got himself back in the air – he’s given command of an RAF squadron in Normandy, shortly after D-Day. The Germans are on the run but not yet beat, and Bart soon has a very close encounter with notorious Luftwaffe ace Willy Strand.
Then the war does end and after a strange meeting with an enigmatic fellow called Kim Philby, Bart is invited to Yalta, with the august party that contains Churchill, Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin of course. But something’s troubling him – wasn’t Uncle Joe really pretty keen on rubbing out our old friend, once upon a time?
Exciting dogfights, beautiful Russian spies, and a seat-of-the-pants finale make a terrific last adventure for Donald Jack’s maverick hero – sharper, blacker and funnier than ever.
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A Yellowthread Street Mystery 8
War Machine
William Marshall
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’Yee and Harry Feiffer to get to work. The crime fighting duo have solved some of the most bizarre cases imaginable. This one will test them like never before.
The eighth book in William Marshall’s classic series sees the colourful cops of Yellowthread Street in their most explosively violent story yet.
Join Christopher O’Yee and Harry Feiffer on a labyrinthine journey into the darkest recesses of Hong Kong past. Prepare for painful memories, surreal humour, fast-paced dialogue and streetwise action.
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A Yellowthread Street Mystery 9
The Far Away Man
William Marshall
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 certificates. And the killing is far from over.
A case this bizarre calls for the colourful detectives of Yellowthread Street. This time things are going to get personal. Join them on an investigation that will send Christopher O’Yee digging deep in Hong Kong’s dark underbelly, and Harry Feiffer into his own forgotten past.
The ninth book in William Marshall’s classic series is one of his most intimate, an examination of gun violence and remorse laced with his trademark humour and surrealism.
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A Yellowthread Street Mystery 10
Roadshow
William Marshall
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 Hong Kong is under attack, and nobody knows why. It’s time to get to work. The crime fighting duo have solved some of the most bizarre cases imaginable. This time they have no evidence, no suspects and no obvious motive. For the colourful cops of Yellowthread Street, that’s no problem.
The tenth book in William Marshall’s classic series is one of his mostly finely written, a brutal and fast moving examination of the dangers of traffic, both human and mechanical.
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A Yellowthread Street Mystery 11
Head First
William Marshall
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 of the dead. Murder only lasts a moment, death is for eternity.
This thrilling instalment of the series, set in the shadow of the Hong Kong handover to the Chinese, Detectives Christopher O’Yee and Harry Feiffer find themselves trapped between clashing cultures: British and Chinese, spies and police, Nationalists and Communists, and of the living and the dead.
The crime fighting duo have solved some of the most bizarre and horrific cases imaginable. This one may prove their darkest yet.
The eleventh book in William Marshall’s classic series is his most political so far, and takes the cops of Yellowthread Street into unfamiliar and dangerous territory.
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A Yellowthread Street Mystery 12
Frogmouth
William Marshall
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 finest in the series, Detective Harry Feiffer hunts an unlikely killer in a case that makes him question the distinction between man and beast. Meanwhile Christopher O’Yee is forced to consider the possibility that Yellowthread Street Station is haunted, and Spencer and Auden provide their unmissable comic relief as they attempt to apprehend a bank-robbing Sherpa.
The twelfth book in William Marshall’s classic series mixes thrills and horror with profound questions and his trademark surreal sense of humour.
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A Yellowthread Street Mystery 13
Out of Nowhere
William Marshall
The victims were shredded in a storm of glass.
There was nothing the truck driver could do. The van was driving on the wrong side of the motorway, at night, with its headlights turned off. It came out of nowhere, loaded with sheets of cheap glass. The combined speed of the impact was 185 miles per hour. What was left of the passengers had to be collected in bags.
A horrific accident takes a mysterious turn when a bullet is found lodged in the base of the van driver’s skull. Suicide pact or something more sinister? A case this bizarre calls for the skills of Harry Feiffer, Hong Bay’s finest detective.
Meanwhile Christopher O’Yee is manning the psychopath hotline at Yellowstreet police station, and things turn canine for Spencer and Auden as they attempt to use an untrained Alsatian to catch a dog which has been terrorising the city’s apothecaries.
The thirteenth book in William Marshall’s classic series mixes horror, humour and humanity in his distinct staccato style.
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A Yellowthread Street Mystery 14
Inches
William Marshall
The rapid response team arrived too late.
They stormed the bank by the book: used shaped explosives to blow open the doors, entered with guns at the ready. Inside, they found the entire staff lying dead by their desks. There were no signs of forced entry or a struggle. No money had been taken. There were just bodies. Nine ordinary people, killed in cold blood.
A case this extraordinary calls for Harry Feiffer, Hong Bay’s finest detective. The problem is, he has no motive, no suspects and no clues. Has someone finally committed the perfect crime?
Detective Christopher O’Yee is wandering the streets of Hong Kong impersonating a homeless person. His orders from intelligence are to scrawl the word ETERNITY onto sidewalks with a piece of yellow chalk, and to carry a coat hanger at all times. He has no idea why.
PCs Spencer and Auden have been ordered to investigate a series of attempted suicides at the futuristic psychiatric Institute of Yu. Before long they will be battling Mongolian hordes and a flock of warrior seagulls.
The fourteenth book in William Marshall’s series is a return to classic form. A crazed medley of action and humour wrapped in a mazy plot that examines serious issues and asks profound questions.
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A Yellowthread Street Mystery 15
Nightmare Syndrome
William Marshall
Nothing real could possibly be so terrifying.
The victims were old, rich and powerful. Men who had experienced everything life has to offer. Yet whatever they saw killed them with fear alone. Stopped their hearts dead. Made them tear their eyeballs out of their sockets.
In the final few weeks before the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese, detective Harry Feiffer faces a battle with evil incarnate: a demonic witch doctor who has been sowing discord and reaping lives across Asia for more than a century. A monster which might even have killed his father. Or so he is starting to believe.
Detective Christopher O’Yee is packing up Yellowthread police station when a sleepwalking man enters his office, hands him a coded message, and plants an axe in his desk. The unexpected visitor has sharpened teeth, and he‘s bringing some friends.
Far below their feet, in the sewers beneath the station, PCs Spencer and Auden uncover a long forgotten menace – the mother of all unexploded bombs. Twenty foot of blue steel filled with anti-tamper devices and high explosives. For Spencer, this is a dream come true.
The penultimate book in William Marshall’s series is one of his best. A crazed meditation on the loss of empire, childhood and sanity, told in his inimitable madcap style.
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A Yellowthread Street Mystery 16
To the End
William Marshall
One last chance for justice.
Charlie Porter, the head of Hong Kong’s anti-triad unit, has been murdered. He was DCI Harry Feiffer’s lifelong friend. But Hong Kong is returning to Chinese rule. The chains of command have been broken. Yellowthread police station stands empty. With no authority, nobody to help, and just days to go until he returns his badge, has time finally run out for Hong Kong’s finest detective?
PCs Spencer and Auden have been summoned to Tiger Dragon Square by the mysterious Duke of Extended Holiness. Black-robed warriors, cannon fire and the cursed dungeons of the Geomancer’s castle await them.
Meanwhile Detective Christopher O’Yee has nothing left to do but pay off his informants. Not the best day for a visit by Colonel Claude Kong of the Chinese People’s Police.
The final book in William Marshall’s series is one of his most reflective, bringing together his thoughts on China, the inevitability of change, and the slippery nature of justice in a moving and fitting conclusion to the inimitable series.
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