The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery
The Fourth Charlie Mortdecai Novel
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The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery - the fourth Charlie Mortdecai novel, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp
'Deliciously nasty ... An adventurously off-piste whodunit' Observer
'She was a Fellow and Tutor of Scone College and the world must learn that Fellows and Tutors of Scone College shall not be done to death with impunity.'
The Hon. Charlie Mortdecai (and his intrepid moustache) is invited to Oxford to investigate the cruel and most definitely unusual death of a don who collided with an omnibus. Though her death appears accidental, one or two things don't add up - such as two pairs of thugs who'd been following her just before her death. With more spies than you could shoe horn into a stretch limo and the solving of the odd murder along the way, The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery is a criminally comic delight.
'Gloriously, infectiously funny' Guardian
'The result of stewing together PG Wodehouse and Raymond Chandler, lightly seasoned with Ian Fleming and Damon Runyon, then adding a jigger of Groucho Marx and a dash of the Marquis de Sade' Mail on Sunday
'A delightfully black comedy thriller - and it will tell you everything you need to know about onanism in fourth-century China' Observer
'Blissfully funny' Independent
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).
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In the 1970s, Bonfiglioli (1928 1985) made a splash with Don't Point That Thing at Me and two other humorous mysteries featuring Charlie Mortdecai, a former art dealer who's often on the wrong side of the law. Completed by British humorist Brown (Hello Goodbye Hello) and originally published in 1996, this first U.S. edition of the witty fourth and final Charlie Mortdecai mystery centers on the death of Bronwen Fellworthy a fellow and tutor at Scone College, Oxford, Mortdecai's alma mater who perished instantly when her motorcar collided with an omnibus. Mortdecai, who considers Fellworthy "perhaps the only wholly unacceptable woman I have encountered in a long and varied experience," gets involved in the investigation thanks to, among others, Det. Chief Insp. Albert H. Sermon, who makes him a "Special Detective Inspector with Detached Duties." Fans of Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy mysteries (The Judas Pair, etc.) will find a lot to like.