Something Nasty in the Woodshed: The Third Charlie Mortdecai Novel
By (Author) Kyril Bonfiglioli
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
27th August 2014
5th June 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
176
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 11mm
127g
Who's targeting the nice middle-class ladies of Jersey Charlie thinks he knows how to find out. Art dealer and assassin Charlie Mortdecai has fled to Jersey, taking his thug Jock along with him, just in case. For now though he's had enough of secret government agencies, of stolen paintings, of terrifying Chinese gangs, and he's getting on surprisingly well with his nubile young wife. But there's no peace for the wicked - and Charlie can sometimes be very wicked indeed. When it seems there's a sexual pervert at loose on the island targeting nice middle-class ladies, Charlie takes it upon himself to find the deviant. Which is how he finds himself in the dead of night up against a tree, his ear nailed to the trunk...
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. He wrote three Mortdecai novels (of which this is the third), a historical novel involving an ancestor of Mortdecai, and left a fifth novel unfinished at his death in 1985. Since he died, the Mortdecai novels have achieved cult status.