{{short description|British author (born 1960)}} {{for|the footballer|Malcolm Price}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Malcolm Pryce''' (born 1960) is a British author, mostly known for his ''noir'' detective novels.
==Biography== 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.
==Writing career== 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 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'' movies.
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.
==Bibliography== ===Aberystwyth noir=== *''Aberystwyth Mon Amour'', 2001, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-5786-9}} *''Last Tango in Aberystwyth'', 2003, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-6676-2}} *''The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth'', 2005, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-7894-9}} *''Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth'', 2007, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-8016-4}} *''From Aberystwyth with Love'', 2009, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-9519-9}} *''The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still'', 2011, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-4088-1025-5}} *''A Streetcar Named Aberystwyth'', 2024, Zoo of Words, {{ISBN|978-1068639807}}
===The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective=== *''The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste'', 2015, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-4088-5193-7}} *''The Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness'', 2020, Bloomsbury Publishing, {{ISBN|978-1-4088-9529-0}}
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: *''A Dragon to Agincourt'', 2003, Y Lolfa, {{ISBN|978-0-86243-684-1}} *''With Madog to the New World'', 2005, Y Lolfa, {{ISBN|978-0-86243-758-9}}
==See also== * Louie Knight
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.malcolmpryce.com/ Author website]
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