Mortdecai is a series of comic thriller novels written by English author Kyril Bonfiglioli.
The books consisted of Don't Point That Thing at Me, After You with the Pistol, Something Nasty in the Woodshed and The Great Moustache Mystery.
First published in the 1970s, the novels have been described as having cult status,[2][3][4] although a writer in The Paris Review said that "readers are pretty much evenly divided between those who relish the books' unflinching, un-PC meanness, and those who are appalled".
He manages to get Martland to have him issued with a diplomatic passport in order to secretly take the Goya to his buyer, Krampf, in America.
Mortdecai travels to the isle of Jersey amidst his increasing unpopularity, and becomes embroiled in the manhunt for a rapist.