Yellowthread Street Author:William Leonard Marshall If your a tourist in bustling Hong Kong, don't venture into the seedy dance-hall district of Hong Bay. Detective Chief inspector Harry Feiffer and the cops of Yellowthread Street Station can tell you why. Take some typical cases they investigate on a routine night: — Mr. Chen, of the Chen and Wang rice stand, axes his wife and her lover into ... more »quarters. Mr. Skilbeck, a tourist from New Jersey, has misplaced his wife and finds he can't handle Hong Bay hookers. Meanwhile, madame Hot Time Alice Ping and her protector, Osaka the Disemboweller, plan revenge on The Mongolian---a gigantic independent gangster whose glee in chopping off ears and fingers has terrorized local shopkeepers used to more genteel methods of extortion.
A motley and sometimes bumbling group, the cops of Yellowthread Street muddle their way through a breathless night, culminating in a frenzied three-way battle among Osaka the Disemboweller's team, Harry Feiffer's men, and the awesome, giggling, and apparently indestructible Mongolian.« less