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The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth
Malcolm Pryce
There was nothing unusual about the barrel-organ man who walked into Louie's office. Apart from the fact that he had lost his memory. And his monkey was a former astronaut on the Welsh Space Programme. And he carried a suitcase that he was too terrified to open. And he wanted a murder investigated. The only thing unusual about that was that it took place a hundred years ago. And he needed it solved by the following week. Louie was too smart to take a case like that but also too broke to turn it down. Soon he is lost in a labyrinth of intrigue and terror, tormented at every turn by a gallery of mad nuns, gangsters and waifs - haunted by the loss of his girlfriend, Myfanwy, who disappeared one day after being fed drugged raspberry ripple.
A well written detective story filed with well crafted lines, black humour and bizarre twists. Think Sam Spade meets the League of Gentleman...
I think I shall now go back and read the first two in the series.
30 Sep 2006 15:24 | (0) comments | Books
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