The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth
Author | : Malcolm Pryce |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2010-09-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781408809020 |
ISBN-13 | : 1408809028 |
Rating | : 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: There is nothing unusual about the barrel-organ man who walks into private detective Louie Knight's office. Apart from the fact that he has lost his memory. And his monkey is a former astronaut. And he is carrying a suitcase that he is too terrified to open. And he wants a murder investigated. The only thing unusual about the murder is that it took place a hundred years ago. And needs solving by the following week. Louie is too smart to take on such a case but also too broke to turn it down. Soon he is lost in a labyrinth of intrigue and terror, tormented at every turn by a gallery of mad nuns, gangsters and waifs, and haunted by the loss of his girlfriend, Myfanwy, who has disappeared after being fed drugged raspberry ripple ...