The Hatchet Man - (Yellowthread Street Mystery) by William Marshall (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A series of murders is haunting the Hong Bay district of Hong Kong - and a nightmarish investigation for Harry Feiffer and his staff at the Yellowthread Police Station begins.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p>With their deaths begins a series of apparently motiveless murders in one cinema after another across the Hong Bay district of Hong Kong - and a nightmarish investigation for <strong>Harry Feiffer</strong>, Detective Chief Inspector, Royal Hong Kong Police Force, and his staff at the Yellowthread Police Station.</p><p>The Hatchet Man's next victim is a sailor off an American ship. Then a German is shot in an auction room. There's an unaccountable killing on a train near the Chinese border. And the crazy old Mrs Mortimer from the Old People's Home steps in front of a tram . . . And for Harry Feiffer, time is running out.</p><p><strong>Full of real police procedure, suspense and fine irony, but with whole extra dimensions of the surreal and the poignant, the Yellowthread Street novels have no real compare - a hidden masterpiece of crime fiction.</strong></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Marshall has the <strong>rare gift of juggling scary suspense and wild humor</strong> and making them both work." <em>Washington Post Book World</em></p><p>"Marshall's style - blending the hilarious, the surreal, and the poignant - remains <strong>inimitable and not easily resisted</strong>." <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em></p><p>"<strong>Marshall has few peers</strong> as an author who melds the wildest comedy and tragedy in narratives of nonstop action." <em>Publishers Weekly</em></p><p>"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 <strong>sure to satisfy those with a taste for mysteries on the far edges</strong>." <em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em></p><p>"Despite the wild humor, Marshall's stories contain <strong>excellent police procedure, real suspense, and fine irony . . . incessantly scary</strong>." <em>Chicago Tribune</em></p><p>"<strong>Among the best police procedural series</strong> on the market." <em>Detroit Free Press</em></p><p>"As an <strong>inspired poet of the bizarre</strong>, [Marshall] orchestrates underlying insanity into an apocalyptic vision of the future." <em>New York Times Book Review</em></p><p>"Marshall's novels feature seemingly supernatural events that turn out to have logical, if not precisely rational, origins. He has <strong>savage fun with police procedure</strong>." <em>TIME</em></p><p>"<strong>Nobody rivals Marshall's ability to expose</strong> the links between comic hysteria and the most mundane human foibles, from greed to cowardice to simple funk." <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p>"Moves at the speed of a bullet; <strong>don't read it aloud or you'll run out of breath</strong>." <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em></p><br>
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