Yellowthread Street
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.
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781911440963
- Published
- 24 January 2019
- Pages
- 160
- Duration
- Dimensions
- 129 x 198 mm
- Genre
- Satire
- Imprint
- Farrago
Reviews
Praise for the Yellowthread Street series:
'Marshall has the rare gift of juggling scary suspense and wild humor and making them both work'
'Marshall’s style – blending the hilarious, the surreal, and the poignant – remains inimitable and not easily resisted'
'Marshall has few peers as an author who melds the wildest comedy and tragedy in narratives of nonstop action'
'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'
'As an inspired poet of the bizarre, [Marshall] orchestrates underlying insanity into an apocalyptic vision of the future'
