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Charlie Mortdecai

Questa serie segue le avventure di un eccentrico e dissoluto mercante d'arte e aristocratico. Con un caratteristico umorismo cinico, il protagonista si ritrova coinvolto in situazioni pericolose e assurde, spesso spinte dal suo amore per l'arte, il denaro e l'alcol. Ogni episodio lo porta in luoghi sempre più bizzarri, dove affronta non solo il crimine, ma anche i propri eccessi. È un'accattivante miscela di mistero, parodia e satira sull'alta società.

After You with a Pistol
Mortdecai
Something Nasty in the Woodshed
The Mortdecai trilogy

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. 1

    Art dealer and seasoned epicurean Charlie Mortdecai comes into possession of a stolen Goya, the disappearance of which is causing a diplomatic ruction between Spain and its allies. Not that that matters to Charlie ... until compromising pictures of some British diplomats also come into his possession and start to muddy the waters. All he's trying to do is make a dishonest living, but various governments, secret organizations and an unbelievably nubile young German don't see it that way and pretty soon he's in great need of his thuggish manservant Jock to keep them all at bay ... and the Goya safe.

    Mortdecai
  2. 2

    Art dealer and assassin Charlie Mortdecai has fled to Jersey, taking his thug Jock along with him, just in case. For now though he's had enough of secret government agencies, of stolen paintings, of terrifying Chinese gangs, and he's getting on surprisingly well with his nubile young wife. But there's no peace for the wicked - and Charlie can sometimes be very wicked indeed. When it seems there's a sexual pervert at loose on the island targeting nice middle-class ladies, Charlie takes it upon himself to find the deviant. Which is how he finds himself in the dead of night up against a tree, his ear nailed to the trunk...

    Something Nasty in the Woodshed
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  • Don't Point that Thing at Me finds Charlie momentarily distracted by a police charge accusing him of stealing a priceless Goya; a nuisance that he overcomes without passing up a single glass of fine wine or plate of foie gras. In After You with a Pistol Mortdecai is roped into a marriage with a beautiful Viennese heiress, who is willing to blissfully accompany him on his life of taste and intrigue as long as he can help her with one little errand: assassinate the Queen of England. Something Nasty in the Woodshed features Charlie, exiled in London due to his growing unpopularity fueled by the aforementioned shady art deal, taking refuge on the island of Jersey. What begins as a epicurean interlude morphs into a macabre manhunt as Charlie seeks to expose a local rapist.

    The Mortdecai trilogy