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In the series, the detectives of the police station in fictitious Hong Bay, Hong Kong – DCI Harry Feiffer, a European born and raised in Hong Kong. Senior Inspector Christopher O"Yee, half-Chinese, half-Caucasian American, and all neurotic. And the ever-bickering team of Inspectors Auden and Spencer – attempt to find the rational basis for inexplicable and seemingly bizarre crimes.
The Yellowthread novels show the influence of Editor McBain in their overlapping plotlines, snappy dialogue, world-weary detectives and often-difficult civilians.
Marshall"s novels manage to juggle violence, suspense, and slapstick humor in his twist on the police procedural form. (1975)
The Hatchet Manitoba (1976)
Gelignite (1976)
Thin Air (1977)
Skulduggery (1979)
Sciences Fi (1981)
Perfect End (1981)
War Machine (1982)
The Far Away Manitoba (1984), London, Secker and Warburg,
Roadshow (1985)
Head First (1986)
Frogmouth (1987)
Out of Nowhere (1988)
Inches (1994)
Nightmare Syndrome (1997)
To the End (1998).
