First edition. Octavo, pp186. Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, in original dust jacket, un-clipped (£3.75 net). Dust jacket design by Ken Reilly.

The Fourth Yellowthread Street Mystery. Very Good condition book (gently browned to edges and end papers) in a VG+ jacket which has some brown spotting to rear flap only.

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