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 & Tutor of Scone College & the world must learn that Fellows & 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 & 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 & 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 & Raymond Chandler, lightly seasoned with Ian Fleming & Damon Runyon, then adding a jigger of Groucho Marx & a dash of the Marquis de Sade”. (Mail on Sunday).”A delightfully black comedy thriller
- & 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 & Italo-Slovene father. After studying at Oxford & 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 & Jersey, where he died in 1985. He wrote four Charlie Mortdecai novels, & a fifth historical Mortdecai novel (about a distinguished ancestor).