Nightmare Syndrome (Yellowthread Street Mystery) - Hardcover

Marshall, William Leonard

4.03

35 ratings by Goodreads

9780892965748: Nightmare Syndrome (Yellowthread Street Mystery)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892965746 ISBN 13: 9780892965748

Publisher: Mysterious Pr, 1997

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During the final weeks of British imperial rule in Hong Kong, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer investigates a series of murders of top industrialists, while Detective Senior Inspector O'Yee finds that six strange armed gnomes have taken over the Yellowthread Street police station.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

In honor of Hong Kong's reversion to Chinese rule, Detective Phil Auden is going through the plumbing in the sub-basement of the Yellowthread Street Police Station (lest possibly mislaid jewels fall into the hands of his Oriental brothers) when he stumbles over an unexploded 10-ton bomb--a bomb that Inspector Bill Spencer is convinced, despite Auden's frantic pleas, offers him a unique opportunity to Live Life to the Fullest by single- handedly disarming. Upstairs, things are even more surreal. Senior Inspector Christopher O'Yee is having persistent visions of six demons assaulting the station, and Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer is investigating a series of deaths of aging millionaires--men who died of heart attacks or strokes, but not before they tore out their own eyes in their death throes. Looking past the elaborate cipher clues that seem to be forced on his mates, Feiffer can't help recognizing the same modus operandi by which his father met his own death 40 years earlier. Is the killer, as Feiffer's colleagues in Manila insist, a dragon-like Dalgangan, an unstoppable priest who's been notching up victims for 150 years, or is it a human wolf in Dalgangan's clothing? Well, don't be too sure. The 15th Yellowthread Street fantasy will keep you guessing--and squirming--right up to the last page, and beyond. Marshall outdoes himself in wild invention. But readers new to his nonpareil series may want to start with the relatively (!) sedate Inches (1994). -- Copyright �1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Booklist:

Corpses start turning up around Hong Kong. Six bizarre creatures invade a police station, bringing with them what appears to be a list of people they have been sent to kill. A World War II bomb is discovered in the basement of the station. And hovering over it all is the impending transfer of authority over Hong Kong from Great Britain to mainland China. In this fifteenth installment of Marshall's popular Yellowthread Street mysteries, things get much weirder before they start to make sense. Like Donald E. Westlake, the master of the comic mystery, Marshall creates an assortment of oddball characters (like Christopher Kwan O'Yee, the half Chinese, half Irish American detective) and allows them to fumble their way through a twisted--and very funny--plot. With publication timed to coincide with Hong Kong's transfer of power, expect this entry in a consistently good series to attract more attention than usual. David Pitt

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