Malcolm Pryce
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Malcolm Pryce (born 1960, in Shrewsbury, England) is a British author of noir detective novels, in the style of Raymond Chandler except that the stories are incongruously transferred from the mean streets of Los Angeles to the rainswept streets of an alternate universe version of the Welsh seaside resort and university town of Aberystwyth, where Malcolm Pryce went to school. The hero of the series of novels is Louie Knight, the best private detective in Aberystwyth (also the only private detective in Aberystwyth), who battles crime organised by the local Druids, investigates the strange case of the town's disappearing youths, and gets involved in Aberystwyth's burgeoning film industry, which produces What The Butler Saw movies.
After working in a variety of jobs including BMW assembly-line worker, hotel washer-up, a brief career in the 1980s as "the world's worst aluminium salesman", and deck hand on a yacht in Polynesia, Pryce became an advertising copywriter in London and Singapore. He is currently resident in Bangkok, Thailand.
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- Aberystwyth Mon Amour, 2001, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 0-7475-5786-1
- Last Tango in Aberystwyth, 2003, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 0-7475-6676-3
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth, 2005, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 0-7475-7712-9
- Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth, due to be published in 2007, Bloomsbury Publishing
