First edition. Octavo, pp186. Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, in original dust jacket, un-clipped (£3.50 net). Dust jacket design by Ken Reilly.

The Third Yellowthread Street Mystery. Very Good condition book (browned to edges) in a VG+ jacket which is a little browned.

Australian author William Marshall is best known for his Yellowthread Street series of mystery novels, set in the fictitious locale of Hong Bay, Hong Kong. The world-weary detectives of Yellowthread Street police station: DCI Harry Feiffer, a European born and raised in Hong Kong; Senior Inspector Christopher O'Yee, half-Chinese, half-Caucasian American, and the neurotic team of Inspectors Auden and Spencer – attempt to find the rational basis for inexplicable and seemingly bizarre crimes. Marshall wrote 16 Yellowthread novels between 1975 and 1998 all being set in Hong Kong