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The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still (Louie Knight Mystery 6)

The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still (Louie Knight Mystery 6)

by Malcolm Pryce (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $6.87
Synopsis

It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates - is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man. Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum cinema, but shortly afterwards he was seen, apparently alive and well, boarding a bus to Aberaeron. Did he miraculously evade the hangman's noose? Or could there really be substance to the rumours that he was resuscitated by aliens? Now, as strange lights are spotted in the sky above Aberystwyth and a farmer claims to have had a close encounter with a lustful extraterrestrial, Iestyn Probert has been sighted once again. But what does Raspiwtin want with him? And why does Louie's investigation arouse unwelcome interest from a shadowy government body and a dark-suited man in a black 1947 Buick?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 01 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 1408810255
ISBN 13: 9781408810255
Book Overview: In the latest hilarious instalment of Malcolm Pryce's Louie Knight mysteries, Wales's answer to Philip Marlowe faces an axe-wielding rabbit-hugger, a green-eyed beauty who answers to the name Miaow, and a case that is out of this world

Media Reviews
Malcolm Pryce is the king of Welsh noir and he dishes up a dastardly mix of gothic comedy where Edgar Allen Poe meets Phoenix Nights in a flurry of blood-stained absurdity * Sunday Telegraph *
Surreal, absurd and very funny ... ingredients include a Buick sought by an alien from another planet; a mayoral election that has replaced voting with a human cannonball; and wisecracks that would make Groucho Marx jealous * The Times *
Pryce continues to put a uniquely surreal spin on the hoary old conventions of noir writing ... It's impossibly weird and, in parts, beautifully lyrical. Pryce's many fans certainly won't be disappointed * Guardian *
You'll weep and laugh, on the same page. Wonderful * Guardian *
Pryce's Aberystwyth is populated by the same hoods, crooks, heavies, conmen, liars, informers, dealers and bureaucrats that prop up the street corners of Raymond Chandler's LA, Louie himself possessing the same unshakable idealism and acid tongue as Philip Marlowe * Time Out *
Poor Aberystwyth. Malcolm Pryce has taken this blameless town and turned it into a nightmarish world ... his plots are as satisfying as those of some of the best straight practitioners * Daily Telegraph *
Author Bio
Malcolm Pryce was born in the UK and has spent much of his life working and travelling abroad. He has been, at various times, a BMW assembly-line worker, a hotel washer-up, a deck hand on a yacht sailing the South Seas, an advertising copywriter and the world's worst aluminium salesman. In 1998 he gave up his day job and booked a passage on a banana boat bound for South America in order to write Aberystwyth Mon Amour. He spent the next seven years living in Bangkok, where he wrote three more novels in the series, Last Tango in Aberystwyth, The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth and Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth. In 2007 he moved back to the UK and now lives in Oxford, where he wrote his most recent novel, From Aberystwyth with Love.