To the girls who came to make it big in the town's 'What the Butler Saw' movie industry, Aberystwyth was the town of broken dreams. To Dean Morgan who taught at the Faculty of Undertaking, it was just a place to get course materials. But both worlds collide when the Dean checks into the notorious bed and breakfast ghetto and mistakenly receives a suitcase intended for a ruthless druid assassin. Soon he is running for his life, lost in a dark labyrinth of druid speakeasies and toffee apple dens, where every spinning wheel tells the story of a broken heart, and where the Dean's own heart is hopelessly in thrall to a porn star known as Judy Juice. "Last Tango in Aberystwyth" is the hilarious sequel to "Aberystwyth Mon Amour". Once again, Louie Knight, the town's only private eye, steps into the moral netherworld of the famous seaside town and uncovers more dastardly deeds that will never make it to the tourist brochures.
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'A sustained masterpiece of dark imagination I am already looking forward to future volumes in this marvellously surreal Welsh noir series' Daily Telegraph 'Combines Monty Python absurdity with tenderness for the twisted world of noir Add a clown, a brain in a box and an endearing gallery of grotesques and stir maliciously. Priceless' Guardian 'Pryce is in a league of his own effortless and hilarious Pryce's novels show disturbing signs of becoming a cult. If only Aberystwyth was really like this' Time Out
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About the Author
Malcolm Pryce has worked as an advertising copywriter, in London and later Singapore. During this time he created campaigns for the famous Singapore Girl, and also wrote tourist promotional advertising for the former headhunting tribes of borneo - a group of people he describes as the most civilized clients he ever dealt with. Malcolm Pryce's first book was ABERYSTWYTH MON AMOUR. He now lives in Bangkok.
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This review is from: Last Tango in Aberystwyth (Paperback)
If you've read the Book Description above, why are you reading reviews? Just get the book. This is the second in Pryce's series about Louie Knight, the only private investigator in Aberystwyth. And this is just as good as the first one, "Aberystwyth Mon Amour".It is a shame that this series is not published in the USA. While parts of the books may be more enjoyable to those with a knowledge of Wales and its people, there is plenty for the rest of us to laugh at and be entertained by. Louie and his young "assistant" Calamity are involved in another case. Dean Morgan has gone missing from the undertakers school. They need to find him. There are other stories to be told about the strange folk of the area as the case unfolds. It would be quite helpful to have read the first book, but not totally required. Since you have to go to some effort to get a copy of any of these, you might as well start there and get in on the first episode. Pryce writes noir in a way that you never get a glimpse of the light. His humor works marvelously, though, in offsetting the dark. The combination makes for a page turner, but I make myself slow down to get all the enjoyment I can from his clever storyline. The first in the series: Aberystwyth Mon Amour Third in the series: The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth
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Pryce Does It Again,
This review is from: Last Tango in Aberystwyth (Paperback)
Pryce follows up his Aberystwyth debut with another tale of unbelievable weirdness. One gets the impression he thought the first book would be a stand-alone and its success prompted him to turn it into a series. Whatever the case, I'm glad he did. While the early pages of this book are spent explaining away the apocalyptic ending of the first, they do so in a way that blends in with the story. And again, the story--twisted, bizarre, unbelievable, involving Druid assassins and a porn star named Judy Juice--is not the point. Pryce continues chronicling, in the best noir detective fashion, the adventures of Louie Knight, Aberystwyth's only Private Eye, whose internal monologues reflect the absurdities of the real world with a comic and sometimes poignant edge.Once again, be warned: the more you know about the Welsh and the Welsh culture, the more jokes you are going to get.
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