William Leonard Marshall, Author Mysterious Press $29 (240p) ISBN 978-0-89296-575-5
Merely a few weeks before the return of Hong Kong to China, only the pretense of colonial order exists. Cultural, legal and moral aspects of this tumultuous transfer are explored in this 16th Yellowthread Street novel, which offers a coherent and...
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William Leonard Marshall, Author Viking Books $15.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-670-81110-6
This uneven detective story set in the Philippines focuses on a series of killings relating to the enormously popular (and, in that country, respectable) sport of cockfighting. ""Battling Mendez,'' a gamecock so famous throughout the islands that he
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William Leonard Marshall, Author Mysterious Press $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-197-9
Marshall's popular stories about the fictional Yellowthread Police, Hong Kong, usually mix serious cases with wild comedy, but his latest has few laughs. The fun provided by conniving bank employees fades in the face of wrenching tragedies. Chief...
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William Leonard Marshall, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-198-6
An enfilade of pervasive gunfire in the predawn hours shocks the residents on Hong Bay in southern Hong Kong at the start of Marshall's new novel about the exploits of the Yellowthread Street police. Chief Feiffer, Detective O'Yee, their mad pals...
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William Leonard Marshall, Author Viking Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81959-1
In quick-cut, cinematic style, Marshall begins his second Manila Bay mystery at Feliciano's Faith Healing House, where psychic dentistry is a specialty. While pulling a woman's tooth, Benigno Feliciano is shot by a man who comes in off the street....
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William Leonard Marshall, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-199-3
Marshall's 13th Yellowthread Street novel delivers all the complex plotting and probing characterization expected from this series set in the fictitious Hong Bay section of Hong Kong. Four passengers in a van loaded with plate glass speed down the...
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William Leonard Marshall, Author Mysterious Press $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-366-9
Set in 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge opens, this swashbuckling tale of crime and sleuthing travesties the old dime-novel thrillers with its bravado and jingoist patriotism. At Niblo's Garden Theatre an aging stagehand is slain during a testimonial...
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William Leonard Marshall, Author Mysterious Press $19.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-89296-368-3
Three bizarre and riveting investigations comprise this dazzling addition (after Out of Nowhere ) to Marshall's literate Yellowthread Street series set in the fictional Hong Bay section of Hong Kong. Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer, called to a sealed
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William Leonard Marshall, Author Mysterious Press $22 (246p) ISBN 978-0-89296-574-8
Marshall's 15th Yellowthread Street tale (after Inches) is both grim and goofy. As Hong Kong Detective Senior Inspector O'Yee ruminates on the British plan for ""Peaceful Transition of Authority"" to China, detectives Auden and Spencer are working...
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