Malcolm Pryce Books in Order

Schoolboys are disappearing in Aberystwyth, drawing private investigator Louie Knight into a mystery surrounding the town's powerful Druids. As he follows the missing boys' trail, a sinister teacher and unanswered questions expose the menace beneath the seaside town.

An academic visiting Aberystwyth mistakenly receives a suitcase meant for a dangerous Druid assassin. Pursued through the town's criminal underworld, he becomes caught between gangsters, the local adult-film industry, and an infatuation that makes escape more complicated.

A memoryless barrel-organ player asks Louie Knight to solve a century-old murder within a week. Short of money and troubled by his girlfriend's disappearance, the detective accepts a case involving an astronaut monkey, gangsters, and an unopened suitcase.

A Christmas murder leaves a cryptic name written in blood and draws Louie Knight into a contest among retired spies. A stolen document about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid connects Aberystwyth's holiday violence to distant Patagonia.

Aberystwyth private detective Louie Knight leaves his usual surroundings for a journey aboard the Orient Express. The change of route brings an unusually strange murder investigation, testing his skills beyond the familiar complications of his seaside home.

During Aberystwyth's mayoral campaign, Louie Knight is hired to find a man supposedly executed decades earlier. Renewed sightings, rumors of alien intervention, and government interest turn the search into a mystery about what happened after the hanging.

As railway nationalization approaches, detective Jack Wenlock investigates an abducted relative. The case leads to a trainload of nuns who vanished years earlier, drawing him into government intrigue and the strangest unsolved mystery in railway history.

Losing his railway detective job leaves Jack Wenlock struggling to support his new wife while evading a murderous organization. News that his mother may have survived a shipwreck sends the couple east, where dubious travelers complicate their search.

A client whose lost memory holds the answer to a wartime disappearance hires Louie Knight. Rival factions threaten him with death whether he solves the mystery or fails, while an unexpected romance further complicates his position.