Product Description
Funeral home frolic: Delmore Danruther, a scamp, a rogue, a cad and a funeral director, falls in love with an heiress and helps her find the will her grandfather wrote and swallowed before dying—and dodge the others who are after it.
Of course there are details in here about the back room that you might rather not know.
Short-listed for the London Observer's P.G. Wodehouse Comic Novel Prize.
“I think your writing style is fascinating and very entertaining.”—John Locke
“Robert MacLean is a wonderful novelist, and that rare bird—a very funny and totally relevant comic artist!”—Collector Guy
“I enjoyed this book from beginning to end. The author is hilarious, sarcastic, witty, incredibly smart, and knows how to tell a story. I am definitely going to read all his books.”—Winslow (from the customer reviews of The President's Palm Reader)
HarperCollins Authonomy comments on Mortal Coil:
“This is original, controlled, funny, sensitive and clever….The only thing I can really think to compare it to is ‘The Confederacy of Dunces’.”—Robert Davidson (The Tuzla Run)
“This is every bit as good as Total Moisture. Well done sir.”—Andrew Burans
“Excellent!”—Sue Harries
The stage version of Mortal Coil is available at BakersPlays.com.
Theme song (for cheerful female voices, to the tune of Shuffle off to Buffalo)
When you’re in the mortuary
You may find it cold and scary —
No, no, don’t recoil.
Off you’re gonna shuffle,
Shuffle off this mortal coil!
Comes the undertaker later
And he’ll drain your radiator
And he’ll change your oil.
Off you’re gonna shuffle,
Shuffle off this mortal coil!
First he’ll put you on the table,
Then he’ll pump out your insides.
He’ll make your condition stable
With formal-de-hyde!
You’ll be magotty and wormy —
It’s enough to make you squirmy —
When you’re in the soil.
Off you’re gonna shuffle,
Shuffle off this mortal coil!
Just because you feel immortal
Doesn’t mean you’ll never die.
You’ll get hard and rigor mortal —
No use to won-der why!
When you’re pushing up the daisies
You’ll be lying back and lazy —
No more moil and toil.
Off you’re gonna shuffle,
Shuffle off this mortal coil!
Shuffle off, shuffle off, shuffle off, shuffle off,
Shuffle off this mor-tal coil!
Ebook design by 52 Novels www.52novels.com
Cover by Peter Ratcliffe www.peterratcliffe.com
Of course there are details in here about the back room that you might rather not know.
Short-listed for the London Observer's P.G. Wodehouse Comic Novel Prize.
“I think your writing style is fascinating and very entertaining.”—John Locke
“Robert MacLean is a wonderful novelist, and that rare bird—a very funny and totally relevant comic artist!”—Collector Guy
“I enjoyed this book from beginning to end. The author is hilarious, sarcastic, witty, incredibly smart, and knows how to tell a story. I am definitely going to read all his books.”—Winslow (from the customer reviews of The President's Palm Reader)
HarperCollins Authonomy comments on Mortal Coil:
“This is original, controlled, funny, sensitive and clever….The only thing I can really think to compare it to is ‘The Confederacy of Dunces’.”—Robert Davidson (The Tuzla Run)
“This is every bit as good as Total Moisture. Well done sir.”—Andrew Burans
“Excellent!”—Sue Harries
The stage version of Mortal Coil is available at BakersPlays.com.
Theme song (for cheerful female voices, to the tune of Shuffle off to Buffalo)
When you’re in the mortuary
You may find it cold and scary —
No, no, don’t recoil.
Off you’re gonna shuffle,
Shuffle off this mortal coil!
Comes the undertaker later
And he’ll drain your radiator
And he’ll change your oil.
Off you’re gonna shuffle,
Shuffle off this mortal coil!
First he’ll put you on the table,
Then he’ll pump out your insides.
He’ll make your condition stable
With formal-de-hyde!
You’ll be magotty and wormy —
It’s enough to make you squirmy —
When you’re in the soil.
Off you’re gonna shuffle,
Shuffle off this mortal coil!
Just because you feel immortal
Doesn’t mean you’ll never die.
You’ll get hard and rigor mortal —
No use to won-der why!
When you’re pushing up the daisies
You’ll be lying back and lazy —
No more moil and toil.
Off you’re gonna shuffle,
Shuffle off this mortal coil!
Shuffle off, shuffle off, shuffle off, shuffle off,
Shuffle off this mor-tal coil!
Ebook design by 52 Novels www.52novels.com
Cover by Peter Ratcliffe www.peterratcliffe.com
