Something Nasty in the Woodshed

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Book 3 of Charlie Mortdecai

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin

Published: Jan 1, 1976

Pages: 200

Description:

As the amoral art dealer heads to the Isle of Jersey, the author's “comic invention and lacerating, politically incorrect humor are in brilliant form” (Publishers Weekly).The Honorable Charlie Mortdecai -- degenerate aristocrat and seasoned epicurean -- has managed, somehow, to tarnish his already questionable reputation. Thanks to a few shady art deals, he's been exiled from London. Together with his gadabout wife Johanna and his ex-con butler Jock, Mortdecai takes refuge in a country estate on the Channel Island of Jersey. But what begins as a hedonistic interlude turns into a macabre manhunt. Through the haze of drunken locals and loathsome tourists, Charlie is out to expose a local rapist whose modus operandi bears a striking resemblance to that of a warlock from ancient British mythology known as “The Beast of Jersey.”