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Malcolm Pryce

    Malcolm Pryce ist ein britischer Autor, der für seine Noir-Krimis bekannt ist. Seine Werke verbinden auf einzigartige Weise den hartgesottenen Stil von Raymond Chandler mit Schauplätzen in einer surrealen, alternativen Version der walisischen Küstenstadt Aberystwyth. Die Erzählung folgt dem Privatdetektiv Louie Knight, der sich durch die vom Regen gepeitschten Straßen bewegt, sich bizarren Verbrechen stellt, die von lokalen Druiden inszeniert werden, und sich mit Mysterien um verschwindende Jugendliche und die aufkeimende Filmindustrie der Stadt befasst.

    Last Tango In Aberystwyth
    From Aberystwyth with Love
    Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth
    Der letzte Tango in Aberystwyth. Roman
    Aberystwyth mon amour
    • In Aberystwyth herrschen Angst und Schrecken. Die Druiden haben alle Macht an sich gerissen, Glücksspiel, Prostitution und geheimnisvolle Holzbauten prägen das Stadtbild. Nicht einmal vor der Schule macht das Verbrechen Halt. Immer mehr Schüler fallen heimtückischen Mordanschlägen zum Opfer oder verschwinden spurlos am hellichten Tag. Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's bester und einziger Privatdetektiv, bekommt von alledem nichts mit. Erst als ihn seine Angebetete, die berühmte Waliser Nachtklub-Chanteuse Myfanwy Montez, bittet, nach ihrem vermißten Cousin zu suchen, macht er sich auf, die Wahrheit zu ergründen.

      Aberystwyth mon amour
    • 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.

      Der letzte Tango in Aberystwyth. Roman
    • 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.

      From Aberystwyth with Love
    • 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...

      The Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness
    • The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective. Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway Servants' Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God's Wonderful Railway, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgers and purse-stealers, bounders and confidence tricksters, German spies and ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous. It reaches up to the corridors of power and into the labyrinth of the greatest mystery in all the annals of railway lore - the disappearance in 1915 of twenty-three nuns from the 7.25 Swindon to Bristol Temple Meads, or the case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste. Shady government agents, drunken riverboat captains, a missing manuscript and a melancholic gorilla all collide on a journey that will take your breath away.

      The Case of the Hail Mary Celeste
    • 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

      The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still
    • The English Civil War was a series of skirmishes that affected not only the English but the Scots, Welsh and Irish too. Sometimes also referred to as part of the War of the Three Kingdoms. The conflicts not only affected those involved directly in the fighting but most of the population. This is the story of one family, the Lloyds, from rural Wales and what they had to endure in those difficult times.

      The Reluctant Trooper