Mortdecai
''Mortdecai'' is a series of comic thriller novels written by English author Kyril Bonfiglioli. The book series deals with the picaresque adventures of a dissolute aristocratic art dealer named Charlie Mortdecai, accompanied on his adventures by his manservant Jock. The books consisted of ''Don't Point That Thing at Me'', ''After You with the Pistol'', ''Something Nasty in the Woodshed'' and ''The Great Moustache Mystery''. The books have been translated into several languages including Spanish, French, Italian, German and Japanese. First published in the 1970s, the novels have since attained cult status."Don’t Point That Thing at Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli"
Sunday Times. Retrieved 17 October 2014
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Kyril Bonfiglioli
Kyril Bonfiglioli (born Cyril Emmanuel George Bonfiglioli; 29 May 1928 – 3 March 1985) was an English art-dealer, magazine editor and comic novelist. His eccentric and witty '' Mortdecai'' novels have gained a following since his death. Biography Bonfiglioli was born in Eastbourne on the south coast of England to an Italo-Slovene father, Emmanuel Bonfiglioli, and English mother, Dorothy née Pallett. His mother and brother died in an air raid when he was 14. Having served in the British Army from 1947 to 1954, and been widowed, he applied to Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his degree. After his divorce from his second wife he lived in Silverdale in Lancashire, then Jersey and Ireland. With Keith Roberts, he edited '' Science Fantasy'' magazine for a period from 1964 to 1966, appointed by David Warburton of Roberts and Vinter Ltd.; and the successor ''Impulse'' for its first few issues in 1966 before handing the reins to Harry Harrison. He died in Jersey of cirrhosis in ...
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