Something Nasty in the Woodshed: The Third Charlie Mortdecai Novel

Author(s): Kyril Bonfiglioli

Crime/Thriller Fiction

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."


Product Information

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.

General Fields

  • : 9780241970270
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : August 2014
  • : September 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Kyril Bonfiglioli
  • : Paperback