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The first full-length novel featuring Yates’ finest comic creation, Bertram "Berry" Pleydell. The central character Adele is based on the author’s first wife, Bettine, a gregarious American dancer and actress. After being robbed, Berry and his friends chase a bunch of criminals round the French countryside.
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2001House of Stratus · 280 pages · 9781842329627
- Other · English · 1985Beaufort Books · 244 pages · 9780825303081
- Other · English · 1981Penguin · 254 pages · 9780140056600
- Other · English · 1976Ward Lock · 240 pages · 9780706316773
Fiction, humorous, generalFrance, fictionFiction, humorousHumorous storiesUpper classFictionHumorRécits humoristiques