Mortdecai Instant

: Spend two paragraphs describing the texture of a rug but dismiss a high-speed car chase in a single sentence. Sophisticated Insults

Mortdecai and Oliver create a forged version of the painting, but things go awry when they're double-crossed by Richard Henry, who steals the painting. The painting, titled "The Art of the Devil," is actually a real and highly valuable artwork.

The series centers on the “picaresque adventures” of the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai, a dissolute aristocratic art dealer whose morals are as flexible as his expense account. He is an anti-hero in the truest sense—unrepentantly amoral, louche, intelligent, and surprisingly self-aware. The author himself once described his creation as “an accomplished fencer, a fair shot with most weapons and a serial marrier of beautiful women ... abstemious in all things except drink, food, tobacco and talking.” He is often accompanied by his long-suffering manservant, Jock Strapp, a character who serves as both sidekick and frequent foil. mortdecai

The satire targets the absurdity of the upper class, where manners and etiquette are paramount, even while illegal activity is taking place.

A obsessed with fine wine, tailored suits, and immaculate grooming. : Spend two paragraphs describing the texture of

as Charlie Mortdecai, complete with an exaggerated upper-class accent and a divisive handlebar moustache.

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as Johanna Mortdecai: Charlie's elegant, sharper-witted wife who is repulsed by his new mustache.