Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines (Monsieur Pamplemousse Mysteries)
Completely empty. The protagonist is a one-dimensional stereotype and the supporting characters are even less deep, which makes them zero-dimensional mathematical abstractions, I guess. The "mystery" is profoundly uninteresting, tawdry BS, too. This vapid little volume was written by a childrens' books author and it shows.
 - Michael Bond)