Malcolm Pryce (born 1960) is a British author, mostly known for hisnoir detective novels.

Born inShrewsbury, England, Pryce moved at the age of nine toAberystwyth, where he later attendedPenglais Comprehensive School before leaving to do some travelling.^[1] After working in a variety of jobs, includingBMW assembly-line worker in Germany, hotel washer-up, "the world's worst aluminium salesman" and deckhand on a yacht inPolynesia, Pryce became an advertising copywriter inLondon andSingapore. He is currently resident inOxford.

Pryce writes in the style ofRaymond Chandler and has been labelled "the king of Welsh noir".^[2] HisAberystwyth Noir novels are incongruously set on the rainswept streets of analternate universe version of the Welsh seaside resort and university town ofAberystwyth. The hero of these novels isLouie Knight, the best private detective in Aberystwyth (also the only private detective in Aberystwyth), who battles crime organised by the localDruids, investigates the strange case of the town's disappearing youths, and gets involved in its burgeoning film industry, which producesWhat The Butler Saw movies.

Pryce has also writtenThe Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste andAberystwyth Noir - It Ain't Over till the Bearded Lady Sings, aBBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama, first broadcast on 15 May 2013, featuring Louie Knight and produced and directed byKate McAll.

• 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 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,^[3] 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

• Louie Knight

• Author website

• 1960 births
• Living people
• English humorists
• 21st-century English novelists
• Writers from Shrewsbury
• Writers from Aberystwyth
• People educated at Ysgol Penglais School
• English male novelists
• 21st-century English male writers

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