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<div>{{short description|British author (born 1960)}}<br />
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'''Malcolm Pryce''' (born 1960) is a British author, mostly known for his [[Hardboiled|''noir'' detective novels]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Born in [[Shrewsbury]], England, Pryce moved at the age of nine to [[Aberystwyth]], where he later attended [[Penglais Comprehensive School]] before leaving to do some travelling.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-22282808| title=Malcolm Pryce: Aberystwyth noir creator pens BBC Radio 4 play| website=[[BBC News]]| accessdate=10 November 2015}}</ref> After working in a variety of jobs, including [[BMW]] assembly-line worker in Germany, hotel washer-up, "the world's worst aluminium salesman" and deckhand on a yacht in [[Polynesia]], Pryce became an advertising copywriter in [[London]] and [[Singapore]]. He is currently resident in [[Oxford]].<br />
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==Writing career==<br />
Pryce writes in the style of [[Raymond Chandler]] and has been labelled "the king of Welsh noir".<ref>{{cite web|author=Melissa Katsoulis | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3641737/Something-fishy-in-Wales.html| title=Something fishy in Wales| work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]| date= 7 May 2005|accessdate=10 November 2015}}</ref> His ''Aberystwyth Noir'' novels are incongruously set on the rainswept streets of an [[Parallel universe (fiction)|alternate universe]] version of the Welsh seaside resort and university town of [[Aberystwyth]]. The hero of these novels is [[Louie Knight]], the best private detective in Aberystwyth (also the only private detective in Aberystwyth), who battles crime organised by the local [[Druids]], investigates the strange case of the town's disappearing youths, and gets involved in its burgeoning film industry, which produces ''[[What the Butler Saw (mutoscope)|What The Butler Saw]]'' movies.<br />
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Pryce has also written ''The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste'' and ''Aberystwyth Noir - It Ain't Over till the Bearded Lady Sings'', a [[BBC Radio 4]] Afternoon Drama, first broadcast on 15 May 2013, featuring Louie Knight and produced and directed by [[Kate McAll]].<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
===[[Louie Knight|Aberystwyth noir]]===<br />
*''Aberystwyth Mon Amour'', 2001, [[Bloomsbury Publishing]], {{ISBN|978-0-7475-5786-9}}<br />
*''Last Tango in Aberystwyth'', 2003, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-6676-2}}<br />
*''The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth'', 2005, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-7894-9}}<br />
*''Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth'', 2007, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-8016-4}}<br />
*''From Aberystwyth with Love'', 2009, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-9519-9}}<br />
*''The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still'', 2011, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-4088-1025-5}}<br />
*''A Streetcar Named Aberystwyth'', 2024, Zoo of Words, {{ISBN|978-1068639807}}<br />
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===The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective===<br />
*''The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste'', 2015, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-4088-5193-7}}<br />
*''The Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness'', 2020, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-4088-9529-0}}<br />
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This author should not be confused with a different author of the same name,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070614204703/http://www.malcolmpryce.com/impostor.html Author's website about alternative author]</ref> who has written the following books:<br />
*''A Dragon to Agincourt'', 2003, [[Y Lolfa]], {{ISBN|978-0-86243-684-1}}<br />
*''With Madog to the New World'', 2005, Y Lolfa, {{ISBN|978-0-86243-758-9}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Louie Knight]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.malcolmpryce.com/ Author website]<br />
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