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Cargando... The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still (2011)por Malcolm Pryce
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Love the series. Plotting is always a problem but characters, humor and a bit of poetry is present, as always ( ) Aliens. Maybe. Men in Black. Maybe. Hallucinogenic icecream. Definitely. Absurdity; triple scoop. Aberyswyth's only PI bashed over the head? Yep. Must be a Louie Knight novel mystery! Yes, another in the spoof noir detective series where the mean streets of Aber are over run with iniquity and sin and Louie Knight takes the most preposterous cases imaginable. In this case, finding a man hung for murder last seen catching a bus to Aberaeron... It's silly and it's equal parts in love with Philip Marlowe and West Wales seaside towns and maudlin philosophising. What's not to like? ‘I don't want to be a killjoy, but aliens in silver suits? Looking humanoid? Why would they look like us if they were from a different star system?' ‘I don't know. Maybe they just disguise themselves to look like us so as not to frighten us, the same way people who shoot ducks have whistles that sound like duck calls.' ‘Don't you think it's odd, though, that these super-advanced beings from another star system keep crashing their saucers?' She began to lose patience with me. ‘They don't keep crashing -' ‘Yes, they do! It seems to happen a lot. How can they master the intricacies of inter-stellar flight and then hit a tree?' ‘You're making assumptions.' ‘Yes, I'm assuming there is probably a simpler explanation located in the realm of human psychology. People have been seeing strange visions throughout history; once upon a time they attributed it to the Devil or his works; now we live in a more rational scientific age and people are embarrassed to profess belief in the Devil -' ‘Not in Ystrad Meurig, they aren't.' The mayoral election is approaching, and current mayor Preseli Watkins gets his brother Ercwleff to chop Private Eye Louie Knight's desk into firewood, to punish him for sticking his nose into the mayor's business in a case that hasn't even started yet. Back in 1965 the the Ystrad Meurig UFO incident took place in the same week as the raid on the Coliseum Cinema, which resulted in the execution of Iestyn Probert for the murder of a police officer who was run over by the getaway car, and now a man called Raspiwtin asks Louie to investigate reports of the reappearance of the hanged man and its connection with a UFO sighting by a local farmer, which leads Louie into yet another relationship with a girl in a stovepipe hat. This interesting story is one of the best in the seres, with Louie and his assistant Calamity unsure whether they are investigating real aliens or are being misled by government misinformation. This was a fun, quick read for the Christmas holidays. Louis, as ever, is handling multiple situations in Aberystwyth whilst trying to earn a living. Searching for a dead man, who has apparently been resurrected, he and Calamity are drawn onto a path of adventure and excitement involving alien vistations amongst other things. It helps to have read the previous Louie Knight mysteries, to get some of the inferences, but does read as a stand alone book too. This has to be the stand out book of my Summer reading. Malcolm Pryce might have slipped into formulaic writing with this the sixth book in the Louie Knight detective stories but this feels as fresh as a first novel and full of ideas and engrossing characters and plot lines. If there is one book that is going to make you want to get in the car and drive to Aberystwyth for an ice cream on the prom then this is it. Great stuff! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesAberystwyth (6)
It is May in Aberystwyth, and the mayoral election campaign - culminating in the traditional boxing match between candidates - is underway. Sospan the ice-cream seller waits in his hut for souls brave enough to try his latest mind-expanding new flavour, and Louie Knight, Aberystwyt's only Private Detective, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger called Raspiwtin asking him to track down a dead man. Twenty-five years ago Iestyn Probert was hanged for his part in the notorious raid on the Coliseum cinema, but shortly afterwards he was seen, apparently alive and well, boarding a bus to Aberaeron. Did he miraculously evade the hangman's noose? Or could there really be substance to the rumours that he was resuscitated by aliens? Now, as strange lights are spotted in the sky above Aberystwyth and a farmer claims to have had a close encounter with a lustful extraterrestrial, Iestyn Probert has been sighted once again. But what does Raspiwtin want with him? And why does Loui' s investigation arouse unwelcome interest from a shadowy government body and a dark-suited man in a black 1947 Buick? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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