Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates - Culinary Detective Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama ----------------------------------
These three episodes of Michael Bond's detective story are dramatised by Alick Rowe and star Gorden Kaye and Shirley Dixon.
Pamplemousse is a retired policeman living in Paris, now making a living as an inspector for "Le Guide", a Michelin-like restaurant directory. His long-suffering wife is Doucette, and his constant companion Pommes Frites is a bloodhound.
The eccentric flatfoot/gourmand and Pommes Frites, his clever dog, team up to sniff out clues when a not-so-merry prankster sabotages Le Guide , "France's oldest and most respected food guide."
The fictional food bible's staff finds itself in a stew when a false obituary of the director appears in the local paper on the very day the final manuscript - the first edition produced by computer, with influential new restaurant ratings - is to be unveiled at a company celebration. There the director faints dead away when he finds the manuscript completely botched, riddled with missratings and erroneous reviews.
Jovial food maven Aristide Pamplemousse, an Inspector Clousseau-meets-Hercule Poirot type, smells something foul when the company's accountant - the sole employee other than the director with access to the computer password - cannot be found.
British writer Bond, also the creator of the Paddington Bear children's series, smartly sidesteps cliches about computer crime, instead devising an old-fashioned puzzle with immensely pleasurable characters and pervasive comic zest.
Three episodes of approx thirty minutes each.
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