William Marshall worked as a playwright, journalist, proofreader and morgue attendant, and was a teacher in an Irish prison. He was also the author of several series of police novels set across the globe and in various centuries.
Born in Sydney, Australia in 1944, he lived in Hong Kong, Switzerland, Wales, Ireland and the USA, before returning to Australia in 1983 with his wife and daughter. He died in 2003.
The first of William Marshall's suspenseful and hilarious Hong Kong police procedurals.
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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