Monsieur Pamplemousse Takes Tr

Monsieur Pamplemousse Takes Tr by Bond, Michael. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780747244080.

When the Director suggests Le Guides food inspector Monsieur Pamplemousse take a brief jaunt to sample the gastronomy of Rome, Pamplemousse knows the offer is too good to be true. But when the only string attached seems to be that on the return journey he escort the Directors schoolgirl niece Caterina from her convent school to her uncles Paris home, Monsieur Pamplemousse begins to relax. Until, that is, he sees the schoolgirl in question ...and spots her ever-present shadow, an Al Capone-lookalike whose hostility Pamplemousse senses even across a crowded restaurant car.However, it is when the Rome-Paris Express pulls into the Gare de Lyon and his charge apparently disappears into thin air that Pamplemousse really begins to worry. Especially when he discovers the lustrous Caterina is the daughter of one of Sicilys most powerful Mafiosi, a man who will not take the loss of his cherished daughter at all kindly ...