There is nothing unusual about the barrel-organ man who walks into private detective Louie Knight's office. Apart from the fact that he has lost his memory. And his monkey is a former astronaut. And he is carrying a suitcase that he is too terrified to open. And he wants a murder investigated. The only thing unusual about the murder is that it took place a hundred years ago. And needs solving by the following week. Louie is too smart to take on such a case but also too broke to turn it down. Soon he is lost in a labyrinth of intrigue and terror, tormented at every turn by a gallery of mad nuns, gangsters and waifs, and haunted by the loss of his girlfriend, Myfanwy, who has disappeared after being fed drugged raspberry ripple ...It was like a fake Dodge City constructed by a movie studio in which all the buildings were frontages and the train line was built on ... Whenever I look back it is always a particular afternoon that I recall. ... Eeyore hailed from an era when to make a journey in anything more auspicious than a bus necessitated dressing for theanbsp;...
Title | : | The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth |
Author | : | Malcolm Pryce |
Publisher | : | A&C Black - 2010-09-06 |
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