Book 45: "Don’t Cry for Me Aberystwyth" by Malcolm Pryce
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kittiwakeTinker, tailor, Patagonian sailor, ex-Nazi . . . Hoffman. He's coming to save the townspeople. Hopeman. A false prophet, cut-price Messiah . . . The man they send when the town clock forgets to tick.
When a department store Santa is found dead and mutilated in an Aberystwyth alley, the discovery that he has written the word Hoffman in his own blood causes stirrings in the world of espionage. Someone claiming to be the Queen of Denmark pays private detective Louie Knight to investigate the murder, while Louie's assistant Calamity has got hold of a Pinkerton Detective Agency manual, and decides to investigate the case using their methods. The name Hoffman is linked to a disaster in the Patagonian campaign (Wales' Vietnam), the capture of Adolf Eichmann, and a possible descendant of the Sundance Kid, but no-one knows who Hoffman is and why he has finally decided to come in from the cold. A stuffed collie in Aberystwyth museum seems to be at the centre of the mystery, and the re-release of a film about his exploits in Patagonia raises strong emotions among the disillusioned veterans of that conflict.
A darker tale than the first three books in the series, but equally as funny.
When a department store Santa is found dead and mutilated in an Aberystwyth alley, the discovery that he has written the word Hoffman in his own blood causes stirrings in the world of espionage. Someone claiming to be the Queen of Denmark pays private detective Louie Knight to investigate the murder, while Louie's assistant Calamity has got hold of a Pinkerton Detective Agency manual, and decides to investigate the case using their methods. The name Hoffman is linked to a disaster in the Patagonian campaign (Wales' Vietnam), the capture of Adolf Eichmann, and a possible descendant of the Sundance Kid, but no-one knows who Hoffman is and why he has finally decided to come in from the cold. A stuffed collie in Aberystwyth museum seems to be at the centre of the mystery, and the re-release of a film about his exploits in Patagonia raises strong emotions among the disillusioned veterans of that conflict.
A darker tale than the first three books in the series, but equally as funny.
