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Yellowthread Street #12

by William Marshall

Inspector Harry Feiffer and the detectives at the Yellowthread Street Police Station pursue a zoo terrorist and a bank robber of Tibetan origin while, in their own building, an invisible creature shrieks endlessly

Genres: Mystery

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

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

[Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

An entertaining and oddball police romp. It's extremely quirky... a police/detective story in the style of "Catch-22". I have not read the first 11 books of the Yellowthread Street series, but the characters were accessible. The (primary) crime itself is anything but light and a seemingly impossible mystery to solve, but the rapid volleying between story threads and characters drives the story forward, making this book a quick and interesting read.

[Lila · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Yellowthread Street mystery with the typical rapid switching from group to group until at least two plot strands meet, but this one is pretty bloody with slaughtered zoo animals. I can't say for sure just what the solution to the mystery was. The title refers to a strange feather, the only clue.