The final part in the trilogy following the smash hits Aberystwyth Mon Amour and Last Tango in Aberystwyth
Malcolm Pryce Books
Malcolm Pryce is a British author celebrated for his noir detective novels. His work uniquely blends the hardboiled style of Raymond Chandler with settings in a surreal, alternate universe version of the Welsh seaside town of Aberystwyth. The narrative follows private detective Louie Knight as he navigates the rain-swept streets, confronting bizarre crimes orchestrated by local Druids and delving into mysteries involving disappearing youths and the town's burgeoning film industry.
The hilarious fourth title in the Louie Knight detective series
It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator's uniform walks into Louie Knight's office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal. Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar.
At last in B-format paperback, the long-awaited sequel to Aberystwyth Mon Amour
The perfect quirky nostalgic crime read - a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing mothers and a quest for the truth, from the inimitable Malcolm Pryce It's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been nationalised and Jack Wenlock - the last of a fabled cadre of railway detectives - is thrown out onto the street. Penniless, with new bride Jenny to support, and hiding from a murderous organisation called Room 42, Jack's prospects look bleak. But then a letter arrives from a mysterious Cornish Countess revealing that Jack's mother - long believed to be dead - may have survived a shipwreck off the coast of Java. Seizing the opportunity to track down his only remaining family member, Jack and Jenny board a boat heading East. The trail takes them to a run-down Siamese hotel where a motley assortment of drifters has washed up. Here a spy, an assassin, a deserter, an old soldier and a fading Hollywood movie star all await the arrival of a missing part for a flying boat and a journey that will take them into the realm of myth. But if Jack is ever to see his mother again, he has to stop them...
Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?
In the latest hilarious instalment of Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwythmysteries, Wales's answer to Philip Marlowe faces an axe-wieldingrabbit-hugger, a green- eyed beauty who answers to the name Miaow, and a casethat is out of this world
Dekan Morgan ist in Aberystwyth verschwunden, und Privatdetektiv Louie Knight ermittelt in der Unterwelt der Stadt. Dabei stößt er auf viele Rätsel, darunter einen mysteriösen Koffer und den unheimlichen Mörder, der als Rabe bekannt ist. Fragen über Bauchredner und das Geheimnis des Quietus bleiben ungelöst.
