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After an act of lechery anyone but a close relative might forgive, Karli Mortdecai Van Cleef leaves Holland with his uncle's buckshot lodged in the seat of his breeches. Discretion being the least-idiotic part of valour he hides out in teeming London's tea shops and opium dens.

About the Author

Kyril Bonfiglioli was born in 1928 of an English mother and Italo-Slovene father. After Oxford, he worked as an art dealer, and in the 70s published the three cult crime novels featuring artdealer Charlie Mortdecai which are collected in The Mortdecai Trilogy (Penguin, 2001). He died in Jersey in 1985.