Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth
Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Mae'n Nadolig yn Aberystwyth. Mae'r twristiaid wedi mynd adref. Mae'r ffilm ddiweddara am Clip y Ci Defaid ymlaen yn y sinema. Ac mae dyn yn gwisgo gwn coch a gwyn wedi cael ei lofruddio yn lôn Chinatown. Mae un gair i'w ganfod wedi ei ysgrifennu'n grynedig ar y palmant mewn gwaed: Hoffmann. Dyma ddechrau ar yr antur diweddara' yng nghyfres 'Louie Knight'. Argraffiad newydd.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
It's Christmas in Aberystwyth. The tourists have gone home. The latest movie starring Clip the Sheepdog is on at the cinema. And a man wearing a red and white robe is found brutally murdered in a Chinatown alley. A single word is scrawled in his blood on the pavement: Hoffmann. Thus begins the latest hilarious adventure in the 'Louie Knight' series. New edition.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781408800683
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781408800683
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth
- Awdur / Author
- Pryce, Malcolm
- Current Price ex VAT
- £12.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £12.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2010-03-15
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 288 pages
- Size
- 200 × 130 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Nofelau a Storïau ar Gyfer Oedolion (yn Saesneg) | EN: Adult Fiction and Stories (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Datrys A Dirgelwch (yn Saesneg) | EN: Genre Fiction-Crime, Mystery and Thriller (in English)
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Father Christmas has been murdered in a dark alley in Aberystwyth. The Queen of Denmark, recognising him as one of her citizens, is offering a signed first edition of the works of Kierkegaard as a reward for information leading to an arrest. She contacts a local private detective – calling from a pay phone and reversing the charges. It’s another case for Louie Knight and his lovely assistant, Calamity. OK, I’m hooked, possibly the last person in the world, let alone west Wales, to join the Louie Knight cult – even beaten to it by my eleven-year-old son, who snorted with frustration when I said I needed to borrow the book before he’d finished reading it. This is not really a cross-over book, but I can understand the appeal for a boy moving on to adult fiction. Malcolm Pryce offers everything you would expect of a good detective story: a strong central plot with a suitably confusing plethora of sub-plots, loads of characters (a number of whom inevitably die), a powerful narrative voice with plenty of sharp dialogue and the essential wry and dry musings on the meaning of life. In my head, the book was read to me by the drawling, gravelly voice of Philip Marlowe (pace Raymond Chandler). Don’t Cry for Me Aberystwyth is a good-fun read, a clever and light-hearted take on the great tradition of crime fiction.
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