Yellowthread Street (16 page)
“Despite the wild humor, Marshall’s stories contain excellent police procedure, real suspense, and fine irony . . . incessantly scary.”
Chicago Tribune
“Among the best police procedural series on the market.”
Detroit Free Press
“As an inspired poet of the bizarre, [Marshall] orchestrates underlying insanity into an apocalyptic vision of the future.”
New York Times Book Review
“Marshall’s novels feature seemingly supernatural events that turn out to have logical, if not precisely rational, origins. He has savage fun with police procedure.”
TIME
“Nobody rivals Marshall’s ability to expose the links between comic hysteria and the most mundane human foibles, from greed to cowardice to simple funk.”
Kirkus Reviews
“Moves at the speed of a bullet; don’t read it aloud or you’ll run out of breath.”
Chicago Sun-Times
Further titles in the series –
Yellowthread Street
The Hatchet Man
Gelignite
Thin Air
Skulduggery
Sci Fi
Perfect End
War Machine
The Far Away Man
Roadshow
Head First
Frogmouth
Out of Nowhere
Inches
Nightmare Syndrome
To the End
William Marshall worked as a playwright, journalist, proofreader, and morgue attendant and was a teacher in an Irish prison. He was also the author of several series of police novels set across the globe and in various centuries.
Born in Sydney, Australia in 1944, he lived in Hong Kong, Switzerland, Wales, Ireland, and USA, before returning to Australia in 1983 with his wife and daughter. He died in 2003.
This edition published in 2016 by Farrago, an imprint of Prelude Books Ltd
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First published by Hamish Hamilton in 1975
Copyright © William Marshall 1975
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events other than those clearly in the public domain, are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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