The first of William Marshall's tautly-written and hilarious stories featuring the staff of the Yellowthread Street police station in Hong Kong includes most of what came to be the trademarks of the series--multiple plots unwinding simultaneously, freeze-frame and looping in the middle of action ...
An unknown maniac has been terrorizing the inhabitants of Yak's Animal and Bird Life Park and Children's Zoo in Hong Kong. Presented with the evidence of a single feather and a strip of cloth from a black umbrella, Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer must execute justice.
The lane had been cordoned off and the traffic diverted. A posse of ambulances shuttled back and forth from one end of the lane to the other, negotiating the rubble and the carpet of glass and masonry splinters and rubble in the centre of the roadway. Someone came walking towards one of the cordo...