
The Hatchet Man
DCI Harry Feiffer investigates a series of apparently motiveless murders…
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.
“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
DCI Harry Feiffer investigates a series of apparently motiveless murders…
After a series of letter bombs, can the Yellowthread Street police bring the culprit to justice?
An evil genius is terrorising Hong Kong and tempers are fraying…
A skeleton drifts onto Hong Kong Bay beach, and sparks a 20-year-old murder investigation…
Amid the chaos of the Sci Fi and Horror Movie convention, a Spaceman with a flame gun appears…
What killed every policeman in Fade Street Station? A giant cat - or something even worse?
A terrorist has declared war on Hong Kong - time for the Yellowthread Street detectives to get to work...
He kills with an 1891 single-shot target pistol. A single shot is all that he needs...
When a bizarre bombing campaign hits the city, Feiffer and O'Yee face their most baffling case yet.
A coffin surfaces in Hong Bay, containing a headless body. And then the grave robbing begins...
What kind of maniac would massacre a zoo?
There was nothing the truck driver could do. The van came out of nowhere, loaded with sheets of cheap glass...
The rapid response team didn’t know they were too late; once inside, they found no sign of struggle.
As the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese approaches, detective Harry Feiffer faces a battle with evil incarnate.
Hong Kong is returning to Chinese rule and Yellowthread police station stands empty. Has time run out for DCI Harry Feiffer?
Join the Yellowthread Street police in their first three blackly comic adventures.
Join the Yellowthread Street police in their first three blackly comic adventures.
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