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The First Charlie Mortdecai Novel

Don't Point That Thing at Me

The Third Charlie Mortdecai Novel

Something Nasty in the Woodshed

A Charlie Mortdecai novel

All the Tea in China

The Fourth Charlie Mortdecai Novel

The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery

After You with the Pistol

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The Second Charlie Mortdecai Novel

Art dealer and assassin Charlie Mortdecai has got himself married - it wasn't his choice exactly, a little pressure was exerted by certain secret government organizations who wanted to keep the lady in check, but it's not an entirely unenjoyable experience: she brings a lot of assets with her. Until, that is, he discovers she has some surprising interests and she wants to get him involved. Which is why he's trying hard to get himself imprisoned, safely away from the pursuing Chinese gangs...

After you with the Pistol - the second Charlie Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp 
 
'Some of the nastiest, funniest and most enjoyable crime writing of the last fifty years' Guardian 
 
'Mr Mortdecai, why do you suppose I and my superiors have preserved you from death at very very great trouble and expense?' 
 
Charlie Mortdecai - degenerate aristocrat and victim of his own larceny and licentiousness - has no idea. Until it is made clear to him that he must marry the beautiful, sex-crazed and very, very rich Johanna Krampf. The fly in the ointment is that Johanna thinks nothing of involving poor Charlie in her life-threatening schemes such as monarch-assassination, heroin smuggling and - worst of all - survival training at a college for feminist spies. Perhaps, it's all in a good cause - if only Charlie can live long enough to find out. 
 
'A rare mixture of wit and imaginative unpleasantness' Julian Barnes 
 
'Splendidly enjoyable. The jokes are excellent, but the most horrible things keep happening' Sunday Telegraph 
 
'At least of Hammett-Chandler weight, and in many ways surpasses them' The Times Literary Supplement 
 
Kyril Bonfiglioli was born on the south coast of England in 1928 of an English mother and Italo-Slovene father. After studying at Oxford and five years in the army, he took up a career as an art dealer, like his eccentric creation Charlie Mortdecai. He lived in Oxford, Lancashire, Ireland and Jersey, where he died in 1985. He wrote four Charlie Mortdecai novels, and a fifth historical Mortdecai novel (about a distinguished ancestor).

Kyril Bonfiglioli was born on the south coast of England of an English mother and Italo-Slovene father. After studying at Oxford and five years in the army, he took up a career as an art dealer, like his eccentric creation Charlie Mortdecai. He wrote three Mortdecai novels, of which this is the second, a fourth historical novel about an ancestor of Mortdecai, and left a fifth unfinished at his death in 1985.

After You with the Pistol

The Second Charlie Mortdecai Novel

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