Aberystwyth Mon Amour (26 page)

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From Aberystwyth with Love

The latest instalment in the wickedly funny
Aberystwyth
series sees Louie Knight, Aberystwyth’s only private detective, swapping the train to Dovey Junction for the Orient Express and trying to unravel a murder mystery that is bizarre, even by his own exceptional standards …

It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth: the bandstand melts, the Pier droops, and Sospan the ice-cream seller experiments with some dangerously avant-garde new flavours. 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. But he hadn’t believed that it really existed until he met Uncle Vanya. Now the old man’s story catapults him into the neon-drenched wilderness of Aberystwyth Prom in search of a girl who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. His life imperilled by snuff philatelists and a renegade spinning wheel salesman, Louie finds his fate depending on two most unlikely talismans – a ticket to Hughesovka and a Russian cosmonaut’s sock.

ISBN: 9781408801024 / Paperback / £7.99
(Published May 2009)

Aberystwyth Mon Amour

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.

THE LOUIE KNIGHT SERIES:

Aberystwyth Mon Amour

Last Tango in Aberystwyth

The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth

Don’t Cry For Me Aberystwyth

First published in Great Britain 2001

This electronic edition published in September 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Copyright © 2001 by Malcolm Pryce

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