Something Nasty in the Woodshed: A Charlie Mortdecai Mystery

Readers and critics alike are toasting the American appearance of Kyril Bonfiglioli’s wickedly funny cult mysteries, first published in the UK in the 1970s.

Featuring the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai―degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, seasoned epicurean, unwilling assassin, and general knave-about-Piccadilly―Something Nasty In the Woodshed is, chronologically, the third in the Mortdecai trilogy, after Don't Point That Thing at Me and After You With the Pistol, although written second. The players are, once again, Charlie, Johanna, and Jock (the thuggish anti-Jeeves), and there is plenty of liquor, lasciviousness, and filthy lucre to keep the plot turning. As Stephen Fry put it, "You couldn't snuggle under the duvet with anything more disreputable and delightful."