The Aberystwyth Mysteries

It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator''s uniform walks into Louie Knight''s office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal.

Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar. But he hadn''t believed that it really existed until he met Uncle Vanya. Now the old man''s story catapults him into the neon-drenched wilderness of Aberystwyth Prom in search of a girl who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Soon Louie finds his fate depending on two most unlikely talismans - a ticket to Hughesovka and a Russia cosmonaut''s sock.