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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.
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The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective
( It was Tuesday the second of December 1947 when Jenny t...)
It was Tuesday the second of December 1947 when Jenny the Spiddler walked into my office: almost a month before they nationalised my mother. Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway Servants' Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God's Wonderful Railway and all that the good men of England fought for in two world wars, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgers and purse-stealers, bounders and confidence tricksters, German spies and ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous. It reaches up to the corridors of power and into the labyrinth of the greatest mystery in all the annals of railway lore- the disappearance in 1915 of 23 nuns from the 7:25 Swindon to Bristol Temple Meads, or the case of the "Hail Mary" Celeste. Shady government agents, drunken riverboat captains, a bandaged book-seller, a missing manuscript, a melancholic gorilla and a 4070 Godstow Castle engine - the one with a sloping throatplate in the firebox and the characteristic double cough in the chuffs - all collide on a journey that will take your breath away.
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The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective (Jack Wenlock 1) by Malcolm Pryce (2015-09-24)
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Malcolm Pryce
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Foreign the football player, see Malcolm Price. After working in a variety of jobs. including Bayerische Motoren Werke assembly-line worker in Germany, hotel washer-up, "the world"s worst aluminium salesman" and deck hand on a yacht in Polynesia, Pryce became an advertising copywriter in London and Singapore. He is currently resident in Oxford.
Pryce writes in the style of Raymond Chandler and has been labelled "the king of Welsh noir".
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 - lieutenant Ain"t Over till the Bearded Lady Sings, a British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 Afternoon Drama, first broadcast on 15 May 2013, featuring Louie Knight and produced and directed by Kate McAll.
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The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective
( It was Tuesday the second of December 1947 when Jenny t...)
- The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective (Jack Wenlock 1) by Malcolm Pryce (2015-09-24)
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The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective
