| 词条 | William Leonard Marshall |
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William Marshall worked as a playwright, journalist, proofreader, and morgue attendant and was a teacher in an Irish prison. He was also the author of several series of police novels set across the globe and in various centuries. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1944, he lived in Hong Kong, Switzerland, Wales, Ireland, and USA, before returning to Australia in 1983 with his wife and daughter. He died in 2003.[2] In the Yellowthread Street series, the detectives of the Yellowthread Street police station in fictitious Hong Bay, Hong Kong – DCI Harry Feiffer, a European born and raised in Hong Kong; Senior Inspector Christopher O'Yee, half-Chinese, half-Caucasian American, and all neurotic; and the ever-bickering team of Inspectors Auden and Spencer – attempt to find the rational basis for inexplicable and seemingly bizarre crimes.[3] The Yellowthread novels show the influence of Ed McBain in their overlapping plotlines, snappy dialogue, world-weary detectives and often-difficult civilians.[4] Marshall's novels manage to juggle violence, suspense, and slapstick humor in his twist on the police procedural form. He has also written two mystery series based in Manila and late-19th-century New York City, the latter featuring City Detective Virgil Tillman – New York City's "first thinking detective" – and his partner, patrolman Ned Muldoon of the Strong Arm Squad. Yellowthread Street
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/features/YTV--Celebrating-40-years.4315179.jp|title=YTV - Celebrating 40 years of hits|publisher=|accessdate=21 April 2016}} 2. ^from his bio in the ebook reprintings of the Yellowthread Street books by Farrago, an imprint of Prelude Books Ltd 13 Carrington Road, Richmond, TW10 5AA, United Kingdom 3. ^Charlaine Harris Blog, Matters Criminous 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://bishsbeat.blogspot.com/2010/08/forgotten-books-yellowthread-street_05.html|title=PAUL BISHOP ~ WRITER: FORGOTTEN BOOKS: YELLOWTHREAD STREET!|author=Paul Bishop|publisher=|accessdate=21 April 2016}} External links
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