Adèle and Co.

Adèle and Co. is a 1931 comic novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), featuring his recurring 'Berry' characters.

The Berry family awaken in Paris from a drugged sleep to find that all their jewels have been stolen by their erstwhile friend, Casca de Palk.

Led by Jonah Mansel, they chase the thief through France (while fending off the attentions of another group of thieves led by the notorious "Auntie Emma"), to Dieppe, Rouen, Tours and the Pyrenees, ending with a climactic encounter on the Spanish border near the Pic du Midi d'Ossau.

[3] Although this was the first complete Berry book since 1922, the characters had had cameo roles in other Yates stories since, and there was a complete Berry story called "Letters Patent" in The Windsor Magazine in January 1929 which subsequently appeared in the book Maiden Stakes.

[5] According to AJ Smithers in his 1982 biography, Adèle and Co. is the author's most joyous and uproarious book, and is in the opinion of many the very best of the Berry series.