Mortdecai — __full__

Charlie Mortdecai first appeared in the 1970s through a trilogy of novels starting with Don't Point That Thing at Me.

Read the Books: Find The Mortdecai Trilogy (often sold as an omnibus). Start with Don’t Point That Thing at Me. Read it slowly. Savor Charlie’s footnotes and his disdain for the lower classes. If you laugh out loud at the description of a decapitation, you are a Mortdecai fan. mortdecai

Screenplay: A 120-page draft dated June 20, 2013, written by Eric Aronson, is available for review on ScriptShadow. Charlie Mortdecai first appeared in the 1970s through

“The trouble with being a coward is that it requires so much effort to stay alive.” Don't Point That Thing at Me — introduction

Directed by David Koepp and starring Johnny Depp, the film Mortdecai is often cited as one of the most significant critical and commercial "flops" of its era.

Recommended Reading (order)

1. Don't Point That Thing at Me — introduction to Mortdecai and his world.
2. Rather a Vile Death — continues the misadventures.
3. Something Nasty in the Woodshed — completes the original trilogy.
   (Also: the posthumously assembled collection "All the Tea in China" and various short pieces.)

“Jock,” I said, rising. “Pack the tweed. And the small crowbar. We’re going to Cornwall.”

When they came back on, the Corot was gone. The lobster was gone. And in their place was a single, glistening, very real lobster—alive, furious, and somehow holding my wallet in its smaller claw.