Malcolm Pryce

eBook, ePUB

The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

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

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Autor

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 From Aberystwyth with Love, The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still, and, most recently, The Case of the Hail Mary Celeste.

malcolmpryce.com / @exogamist

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408811283
• Artikelnr.: 38285879