| Title:
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MONSIEUR PAMPLEMOUSSE RESTS HIS CASE
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| By: |
Michael Bond |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£3.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0749018860 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780749018863 |
| Publisher: |
ALLISON & BUSBY |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 2016 |
| Series: |
The Monsieur Pamplemousse Series 7 |
| Description: |
The Director of Le Guide, eager to expand the influence of France's leading gastronomic guidebook, cultivates a useful transatlantic connection: Mrs Van Dorman. And who better to escort her than Monsieur Pamplemousse, Surete sleuth turned top-rank gourmet? However things don't go to plan when cyanide seems to be the main ingredient... |
| Synopsis: |
Ever eager to expand the influence of France's leading gastronomic guidebook beyond her native shores, the Director of Le Guide has been cultivating a useful transatlantic connection in the form of a certain Mrs Van Dorman. Ex-parfumier, presently a publishing magnate and, in her spare time,a fan of private-eye novels, Mrs Van Dorman has deserted the relative safety of La Grande Pomme to accompany a group of crime writers to a recreation in Vichy of a banquet given by Alexandre Dumas before he started work on yet another sequel to The Three Musketeers. And who better to escort her than Monsieur Pamplemousse, Surete sleuth turned top-rank gourmet? Monsieur Pamplemousse himself could think of a number of more suitable candidates, especially when it becomes apparent that the assignment involves a grand entry dressed as d'Artagnan, mounted on an uncomfortably rampant black charger. But when cyanide turns out to be a surprise ingredient of the murder tour it is soon clear that Monsieur Pamplemousse - aided by the unerring nose of bloodhound Pommes Frites - is the only man for the job... |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Allison & Busby |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |