To the End (Yellowthread Street Mystery) - Hardcover

In his new novel, Marshall ponders the end of an era - as Hong Kong sheds its Western mask and enters China forever. After them: the deluge. Detective Senior Inspector Christopher O'Yee, sitting at his desk in Yellowthread Street Station, knows it: now O'Yee is waiting for the barbaric representative of a barbaric Communist nation to make his barbaric appearance in his office. Harry Feiffer knows it, staring down at the decapitated corpse of the big, good-humored Australian-born detective who had been his friend. And Detectives Spencer and Auden know it, as they investigate a threat to the existence of the universe - and find, deep within the abandoned castle of the Geomancers' Union, the passageway to hell itself. "To The End" is a tale of politics, history, and corruption as well as a shocking murder case. It captures a moment in time when men and women lose their familiar world and discover the mystery they had taken for granted.

Even the historic end of British Colonial Rule doesn't stop the eccentric crime that always overwhelms Hong Kong's Yellowthread Street precinct. Detective Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer is trying to deduce whether an unfortunate janitor was the intended target of a deadly blast of buckshot that cut him cleanly in half. Meanwhile, Detectives Spencer and Auden are convinced they've come face-to-face with the Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, or the side effects of too much overtime. And Inspector O'Yee is eagerly awaiting the arrival of his new boss with the catchy title: Colonel Claude Kong of the Chinese People's Police.