Career
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. In the Yellowthread Street series, the detectives of the Yellowthread Street 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-Irish 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 ofBibliography
Yellowthread Street series
* ''Yellowthread Street'' (1975) * ''The Hatchet Man'' (1976) * ''Gelignite'' (1976) * ''Thin Air'' (1977) * ''Skulduggery'' (1979) * ''Sci Fi'' (1981) * ''Perfect End'' (1981) * ''War Machine'' (1982) * ''The Far Away Man'' (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)Manila Bay series
*''Manilla Bay'' New York, Penguin (1986) * ''Whisper: a Manila Bay Mystery'' New York, Viking Press (1988)Tillman and Muldoon series
*''New York Detective'' New York, Mysterious Press (1989) * ''Faces In The Crowd'' New York, Mysterious Press edition (1991)Other works
* ''The Fire Circle'' Melbourne, Macmillan (1969) * ''The Age of Death'' New York, Viking Press (1971) * ''Shanghai'' Hamish Hamilton / Pan BooksReferences
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