Something Fishy in Wales
Summary
IF YOU MISSED Malcolm Pryce's last two books, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Aberystwyth was just another down-at-heel seaside town, and his fictional private detective, Louie Knight, just another paperback gumshoe. But Pryce's ``Aber'' is a surreal backwater where low-lifes down ice-cream instead of Bourbon and hardened criminals intimidate using metaphysical brainteasers. The ``What the Butler Saw'' industry is an ever-present threat to women, and everyone remembers the Great Clifftop Railway robbery. Even the girls at Sister Cunegonde's Waifery seem to be hiding something under their wimples...
However, there is nothing cutesy about this Cymru manquI -- Pryce mines a disturbing seam of violence tempered by pathos so that his imagined world has as nasty a bite as that of A Clockwork Orange or Brave New World.See the full content of this document
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Something Fishy in Wales
You might think it's just another day at the offices of Knight Errant Investigations...
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