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Book jacket blurb
As Aberystwyth’s only private eye, Louie Knight was used to clients losing things: hats, coats, umbrellas…their lives.
But Cornelius Pingüinos was the first client to lose his memory. And it was no ordinary memory. It contained the solution to the most enduring mystery of the Patagonian War – that conflict known as the Welsh Vietnam: the fate of the 32nd Airborne Division, who vanished into thin air while trying to lift the siege of Nueva Aberystwyth.
‘Big Penguin’, the penguin industrial complex, threatens to kill Louie if he solves the mystery.
The Druid gangsters say it’s curtains if he doesn’t.
And to make matters worse, Louie breaks his cardinal rule: he falls in love.
Welcome to the mean streets of Aberystwyth: a surreal seaside world of broken hearts, broken dreams and broken ice-cream cornets.
A Streetcar Named Aberystwyth is the seventh novel in Malcolm Pryce’s celebrated Aberystwyth Noir series. Dark, funny, twisted and touching, it presents an Aberystwyth that never quite happened.
Here it is, the seventh in the Aberystwyth series. It’s been quite a journey. Bloomsbury told me in 2010 that they did not wish to continue the series so I have self-published this novel.
Currently it is only available on Amazon, but hopefully that should change in the first quarter of 2025.
Amazon reviews
So far, 153 reviews with an average of 4.7. Thanks to all the kind commenters. It’s been quite a journey bringing this novel to birth and your kind words are very much appreciated.
…surreal and funny and sad and so beautifully written
…full of strange poetic writing and weird absurdity to make you laugh, as well as poignancy to make you think, or even cry.
What makes this book a masterpiece is that beyond the complex shenanigans of the Airborne 32nd, the book turns into both a beautiful love story…
Brilliant, funny, sad, poignant and nutty! The only thing I dislike is, having devoured it with gusto in a day…
Absolutely riveting from start to finish, twisting and turning all the way…