Book description
It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral
election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates
- is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave
enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight,
Aberystwyth's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious
stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man.
Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was
hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum cinema, but shortly
afterwards he was seen, apparently alive and well, boarding a bus to Aberaeron.
Did he miraculously evade the hangman's noose? Or could there really be
substance to the rumours that he was resuscitated by aliens?
Now, as strange lights are spotted in the sky
above Aberystwyth and a farmer claims to have had a close encounter with a
lustful extraterrestrial, Iestyn Probert has been sighted once again.
But what
does Raspiwtin want with him? And why does Louie's investigation arouse
unwelcome interest from a shadowy government body and a dark-suited man
in a
black 1947 Buick? 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 his most recent
novel, From Aberystwyth with Love
.
