Crossover Cover: Don't Point that Thing at Me

Art dealer Charlie Mortdecai visits specialized automobile body maker Mr. Spinoza, who is willing to consider restoring or recreating various brands of car, including Hirondelles. Leslie Charteris’ hero Simon Templar, the Saint, drove a fictional brand of car called the Hirondelle (also spelled Hirondel). This reference confirms Charlie Mortdecai in the CU.

Crossover Cover: All the Tea in China

In 1839, Carolus Mortdecai “Karli” van Cleef arrives in England with the intention of selling fine china, and is befriended by John Jorrocks, MFH, merchant of Great Coram Street. Karli’s first customer is a Lord Windermere. Mr. Jorrocks is proud of having established an Honourable Wooster as a customer of his own. Karli is the ancestor of Bonfiglioli’s series character Charlie Mortdecai, whom I've written about in previous posts. Mr. Jorrocks is from R. S. Surtees’ Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities. Lord Windermere must be an ancestor of the holder of that title seen in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. The Honourable Wooster must be related to Bertie Wooster.

Crossover Cover: Something Nasty in the Woodshed

In a previous post, I covered Don't Point That Thing at Me, the first novel in Kyril Bonfiglioli's Charlie Mortdecai series. In the second novel, Charlie visits his old tutor, John Dryden, at Scone College, and encounters Bronwen Fellworthy for the first time. A Miss H. Glossop appears. Scone College is from Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall. Miss Glossop may be a relative of Honoria Glossop from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories.