FAR AWAY MAN

Yellowthread Street #9

by William Marshall

1984, Secker & Warburg, London, UK, hardcover edition,186 pages. A Yellowthread Mystery set in Hong Kong. Detective Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer and Detective Senior Inspector O'Yee are up against a killer called the Far Away Man, among other problems.

Genres: Mystery

Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

William Marshall (or William Leonard Marshall) (born 1944, Australia) is an Australian author, best known for his Hong Kong-based "Yellowthread Street" mystery novels, some of which were used as the basis for a British TV series.

Reviews

[Matthew Beck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marshall is a rare genius. There is no one I know of who writes anything like him. Granted, his staccato pace and syntax is not for everyone, but there is so much goodness here that a conscious reader will look past it if it's not to his taste. Beneath it all is an empathy--a simple humanity that is so rare in the mystery genre as to be all bit nonexistent. A brilliant book in a brilliant series.

[David Tate · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perhaps the best of the astonishingly wonderful "Yellowthread Street" novels. Marshall had a unique gift for stream-of-consciousness impressionistic action writing, oblique in-cluing, and absurdist police procedural. There are no comparable works; read them all.

[Kathryn McCary · Rating 3 out of 5]

The eighth Yellowthread Street mystery. A study in the disintegration of personality, with guns as a subtheme, in Marshall's standard intense style. More gripping than some, and way less funny.