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Book looks new and unread to me. >>> Louie Knight is our private eye of Aberystwyth and our narrator of this tale. He has an apprentice detective with him now, Calamity Jane (who else?) and some very odd cases coming up. An organ grinder who carries a suitcase he's terrified to open brings Knight a case - to solve a murder mystery over a hundred years old. He is accompanied by a monkey mother who speaks sign language and is looking for her missing son, Mr Bonjangles. Which in itself turns out to be a rather tragic story. Then there's the case of Knight's girlfriend, who seems to be trapped in some kind of catatonic state. She's kidnapped, so he also has to figure out who has taken her and why. Intermingled in this are all the characters you'd expect to find in a good old noir mystery, but with their own eccentric Welsh twists. Can't really fault it. (Goodreads)