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Kyril Bonfiglioli

Born

in Eastbourne, The United Kingdom

May 29, 1928

Died

March 03, 1985

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Humor, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

P. G. Wodehouse

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Kyril Bonfiglioli was variously an art dealer, editor, and writer.

He wrote four books featuring Charlie Mortdecai, three of which were published in his lifetime, and one posthumously as completed by the satirist Craig Brown. Charlie Mortdecai is the fictional art dealer anti-hero of the series. His character resembles, among other things, an amoral Bertie Wooster with occasional psychopathic tendencies. His books are still in print and have been translated into several different languages including Spanish, French, Italian, German and Japanese.

Bonfiglioli's style and novel structure have often been favourably compared to that of P. G. Wodehouse. Mortdecai and his manservant Jock Strapp bear a fun-house mirror relation to Wodehouse's Wooster ...more

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Kyril Bonfiglioli’s books

Average rating: 3.5 · 7,450 ratings · 948 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	Don't Point that Thing at Me (Charlie Mortdecai #1) 3.32 avg rating — 3,964 ratings — published 1972 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After You with the Pistol (Charlie Mortdecai, #2) by Kyril Bonfiglioli, Simon Prebble (Narrator) 3.74 avg rating — 1,166 ratings — published 1979 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Nasty in the Woodshed (Charlie Mortdecai, #3) 3.54 avg rating — 855 ratings — published 1976 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mortdecai Trilogy (Charlie Mortdecai #1-3) 3.88 avg rating — 595 ratings — published 1991 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery (Charlie Mortdecai #4) by Kyril Bonfiglioli, Craig Brown 3.66 avg rating — 512 ratings — published 1999 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Tea in China 3.85 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 1978 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mortdecai ABC by Kyril Bonfiglioli, Margaret Bonfiglioli 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impulse #1 by Kyril Bonfiglioli, James Blish 2.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SF Reprise 6 by Kyril Bonfiglioli (Editor), Jael Cracken, Keith Roberts liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1966	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After You with the Pistol (2005-02-01) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Kyril Bonfiglioli

Charlie Mortdecai (4 books)
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Kyril Bonfiglioli,

Craig Brown

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Quotes by Kyril Bonfiglioli (?)

“Bed is the only place for protracted telephoning. It is also execellently suited to reading, sleeping and listening to canaries. It is not a good place for sex: sex should take place in armchairs, or in bathrooms, or on lawns which have been brushed but not too recently mown, or on sandy beaches if you happen to have been circumcised. If you are too tired to have intercourse except in bed you are probably too tired anyway and should be husbanding your strength.”
― Kyril Bonfiglioli, The Mortdecai Trilogy

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“It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen. ”
― Kyril Bonfiglioli, The Mortdecai Trilogy

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“I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.”
― Kyril Bonfiglioli

tags: beauty, madness, police, wine, wives

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