"... a world of surreal possibility recorded with unique humour and a poignant sense of humanity ..."
Set in a fictional suburb of Hong Kong, Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer and his motley crew of detectives are part of the night shift at Yellowthread Street Police Station. What begins as a routine night soon devolves into a comedy of errors and conversations lost in translation as the team investigate a bloody murder, a lost husband, a crime spree that coincides with the arrival of a US naval ship, a rampaging Mongolian, and local gangsters (with names like Osaka Oniki the Disemboweller, Shotgun Sen and The Chopper).
Loved every page ! Could not stop reading. It's hard to believe that this was first published in the mid-1970s, and is the first of many; and that it was a UK TV series in the 1990s (thank you youtube).
As I was reading this, it put me in mind of William Wyler's 1951 movie, "Detective Story", starring Kirk Douglas (that tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad). Yellowthread Street seems to have been written in the same style.
Definitely a series to follow up on!
See:
Wikipedia - Yellowthread Street TV Series
Goodreads - Yellowthread Street books
No comments:
Post a Comment