Charlie Mortdecai mysteries
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[2004]
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A first U.S. edition of the British cult classic thriller chronicles the adventures and exploits of the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai, a degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, epicurean, assassin, and general knave who, along with his thuggish manservant Jock, becomes embroiled with secret police, stolen paintings, nasty foreign governments, and murdered clients.
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Charlie Mortdecai mysteries volume 2
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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,...
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Charlie Mortdecai mysteries volume 3
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"Mr Mortdecai, why do you suppose I and my superiors have preserved you from death at very very great trouble and expense?†? Charlie Mortdecai-degenerate aristocrat and victim of his own larceny and licentiousness-has no idea. Until it is made clear to him that he must marry the beautiful, sex-crazed and very, very rich Johanna Krampf. The fly in the ointment is that Johanna thinks nothing of involving poor Charlie in her life-threatening schemes...
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Charlie Mortdecai mysteries volume 4
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The final novel in the classic crime series featuring the amoral aristocrat art dealer-"quite beyond the run-of-the-mill . . . gloriously, infectiously funny" (Guardian, UK).
The Hon. Charlie Mortdecai-the elite art dealer, degenerate aristocrat, and reluctant criminal mastermind-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...
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