'Don't Point That Thing at Me' (first published in 1972), 'Something Nasty in the Woodshed' (1976) and 'After You With the Pistol' (1979), all complete; three dark comedy thrillers featuring, and narrated by, the hard living Charlie Mortdecai, 'I turned my face to the wall, feeling like a collection of passages deleted from the Book of Job.' But, the next morning, 'I must say that Drs Alka and Seltzer should have won the Nobel Prize years ago; my only quarrel with their brain-child is its noise.'
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