Something Nasty in the Woodshed

Kyril Bonfiglioli

• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781468307887
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

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."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by Kyril Bonfiglioli
• Copyright
• Contents
• Et Amicorum
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16