A chapbook of three comic stories by Matthew Asprey. 'Villa des Bijoux' recounts the obsessive hunt for a location used in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 film 'To Catch A Thief' in the village of St Jeannet on the Cote d’Azur. 'Gut Bucket Blues' was originally published in the Australian jazz journal Extempore. 'To Murder My Love Is A Crime!' is a noirish comedy of obsession, frustrated desire, and Mr Donut doughnuts.
MATTHEW ASPREY is a writer from Sydney, Australia.
His short stories have appeared in Island, Extempore, Total Cardboard, and various underground publications. The novellas 'Red Hills of Africa' (2009) and 'Sonny's Guerrilas' (2011) and the story collection 'To Murder My Love Is A Crime!' (2011) are available in paperback chapbook and ebook formats. During 2011 Asprey has been filing dispatches from his 'Global Prowl' for PopMatters.com.
Asprey's Sydney-set historical novel 'Murphy and the Baker', a work-in-progress under the sponsorship of Macquarie University's PhD program, has been excerpted in the anthology 'Nth Degree' (Arcade Publications, 2010). He was awarded a PhD in 2011.
Matthew Asprey is also the editor of the anthology 'Jack London: San Francisco Stories' and 'The Sea, The Earth, and All Men: The Complete Stories and Novellas of Joseph Conrad' (3 vols).
