Monsieur Pamplemousse Books in Order

Monsieur Pamplemousse must sample the dreadful cooking at the Hotel du Paradis, which belongs to his director’s formidable aunt. His assignment becomes more complicated when he hears unsettling stories about what the food does to guests.

Food inspector Monsieur Pamplemousse and his bloodhound Pommes Frites investigate strange events at a hotel in the Loire. Unappealing meals with unexpected effects draw them into embarrassing encounters while they try to understand what is happening.

While staying at a hotel and restaurant beside Lac Leman, Monsieur Pamplemousse discovers that one of its five brother proprietors has vanished. The former detective and food inspector must investigate a mystery amid meals and awkward encounters.

Sent to a health farm in the Pyrenees, Monsieur Pamplemousse encounters a punishing regime and unsettling activity around the clinic. With Pommes Frites beside him, the food inspector investigates circumstances that make his prescribed cure increasingly suspicious.

Monsieur Pamplemousse must arrange the food and wine for an inaugural airship flight carrying French and British leaders. A trip to Brittany brings mysterious nuns and a trapeze artist into an increasingly troublesome catering assignment.

A sabotaged computer turns Le Guide’s new restaurant award into a publishing disaster. With its deadline approaching, Monsieur Pamplemousse and Pommes Frites investigate an enemy determined to disgrace the guide and bring down its director.

Monsieur Pamplemousse escorts a publishing magnate to a Vichy banquet recreating a meal associated with Alexandre Dumas. When a crime writer is poisoned, he and bloodhound Pommes Frites must investigate the guests and the unexpected ingredient in their evening.

Asked to advise on food for a biblical perfume advertisement, Monsieur Pamplemousse visits a film set in Provence. Sabotaged meals and other disruptions require his detective skills, especially when the musician playing Jesus suddenly disappears from the production.

Monsieur Pamplemousse reluctantly accompanies trainee restaurant reviewer Elsie to the Hotel des Dunes. Poor food and peculiar guests make the assignment uncomfortable, but a missing chef and a suspicious bone discovered by Pommes Frites suggest something more serious.

Monsieur Pamplemousse and Pommes Frites take a canal holiday in Burgundy that comes with obligations from Le Guide. Longstanding family tensions and strange incidents disrupt the trip, bringing an assassin and other hazards into their supposedly peaceful travels.

After visiting Rome, Monsieur Pamplemousse must escort the Director's young relative Caterina to Paris. Her disappearance on arrival turns the assignment into a crisis, especially when he discovers that her father is a powerful Sicilian Mafia figure.

A photographed encounter with a Mother Superior puts Monsieur Pamplemousse in trouble with the tabloids. Sent to assess chef Andre Dulac away from the publicity, he discovers suspicious circumstances that could damage the reputation of Le Guide itself.

Pamplemousse expects a relaxing break in the South of France, with only an artwork collection to arrange. A missing contact and a dismembered body outside his hotel quickly replace the holiday atmosphere with a murder investigation.

Watching a television cookery show from the studio audience, Monsieur Pamplemousse sees its host collapse after eating an oyster. A death broadcast live turns the outing into a mystery, with bloodhound Pommes Frites helping assess the clues.

An exploding coffin interrupts a funeral and leaves Pamplemousse searching for an explanation. Then news of a plot to poison the food supply sends him, Pommes Frites, and an unusual ally into a race to prevent disaster.

Le Guide faces a campaign intended to undermine its reputation, with staff rumours and tampered files causing chaos. Pamplemousse and Pommes Frites investigate the sabotage before ridiculous recommendations and false awards ruin the restaurant guide's credibility.

Pamplemousse stages a play to impress an American food critic and improve Le Guide's reputation overseas. An opening-night mishap sends the critic storming out, leaving Pamplemousse and Pommes Frites trying to find him before he damages their plans.

Pamplemousse and Pommes Frites receive several puzzling problems linked to Le Guide's director's criminal relative. A dead restaurateur, a disappointing steak, and a giant truffle seem unrelated until attempts to investigate reveal how thoroughly the cases overlap.