The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery

Kyril Bonfiglioli and Craig Brown

ISBN 10: 0948238240 / ISBN 13: 9780948238246

Published by Black Spring, 1999

About this Item

*** BOOK in fine condition. Black boards with gilt ttitle on spine. Decorated endpapers. 174 pages. The last chapter was eritten by Craig Brown after the author's untimely death. A few of the pages have production creases at the top corners. *** DUST JACKET in very good condition, Unclipped, Some creasing along the top edge, Now Trimsleeve protected. *** CONTENTS: The last of the Mortdecai murder mysteries.

Seller Inventory # 006504

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery
• Publisher: Black Spring
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0948238240
• ISBN 13: 9780948238246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction First Edition

About this title

Synopsis

A surreal and farcical novel left unfinished by Bonfiglioli, completed by author and journalist Craig Brown. The work includes hints and tips on many subjects, including "the desire and pursuit of the haemorrhoid" and "sesquipedalianims for dyslectics".

Review

A rare mixture of wit and imaginative unpleasantness

Wonderfully offbeat...The often hilarious narrative voice owes something to P.G. Wodehouse (Mortdecai and his thug, Jock, are a through-the-looking-glass Wooster and Jeeves), but Bonfiglioli pays the debt by layering his homage with a loony blend of classical references, groan-worthy asides, and a playful dismantling of Golden Age detective novels.

What are the books like? They are darker, stranger and more interesting than any film of them (or at least any film cleared for general release) could be...The novels are extremely funny, first of all. They deal, like Wodehouse, in sentence-by-sentence sparkle, in gestures of grand insouciance.--Sam Leith