Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth - Hardcover

Malcolm Pryce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747580162 ISBN 13: 9780747580164

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

It's Christmas in Aberystwyth. The tourists have gone home. The latest movie starring Clip the Sheepdog is on at the cinema. And a man wearing a red and white robe is found brutally murdered in a Chinatown alley. A single word is scrawled in his blood on the pavement: Hoffmann. But who is Hoffmann? Thus begins the latest hilarious adventure in the 'Louie Knight' series.

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Review:

`His latest Louie Knight mystery ... promises more over-the-top Welsh noir' -- Sunday Telegraph

`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. And there are several hilarious set pieces' -- Daily Telegraph

`Pryce delivers a book that is every bit as witty, scathing and fiendishly plotted as its predecessors' -- South Wales Argus

`Another wonderfully silly fantasy ... the old magic is alive and well' -- Sunday Telegraph

Synopsis:

It's Christmas in Aberystwyth. The tourists have gone home. The latest movie starring Clip the Sheepdog is on at the cinema. And a man wearing a red and white robe is found brutally murdered in a Chinatown alley. A single word is scrawled in his blood on the pavement: Hoffmann. But who is Hoffmann? Thus begins the latest hilarious adventure in the "Louie Knight" series. This time, Aberystwyth's celebrated crimefighter finds himself all at sea in a brilliant pastiche of a cold war spy thriller. Caught in a web of intrigue spanning the world from Patagonia to Aberystwyth, Louie sets out on the trail of a legendary document stolen long ago from Adolf Eichmann. It is said to contain an astonishing revelation about the ultimate fate of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but he's not the only one who wants it. A bewildering array of superannuated spooks and silver-haired spies have descended on Aberystwyth, all lured out of retirement by one tantalising rumour: Hoffmann has decided to come in from the Cold. Louie Knight, who still hasn't wrapped his presents, just wishes he could have waited until after the holiday.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0747580162
• ISBN 13: 9780747580164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280