Peter Mayle
Author
Series
Sam Levitt mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle's newest and most delightful novel is filled with culinary delights, sumptuous wines, and colorful characters. It's also a lot of fun. The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately, after inviting the -- bien sûr, The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle's...
Author
Series
Sam Levitt mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Unable to resist an exciting job offer in Marseille, Sam and Elena find their happy return to the region's coastal sunshine and delectable cuisine challenged by an increasingly violent competition for waterfront property.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed. Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the C��ote d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world...
Author
Series
Sam Levitt mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"The beloved author at his effervescent best: his master sleuth, Sam Levitt, eating, drinking, and romancing his way through the South of France-even as he investigates a case of deadly intrigue among the Riviera's jet set. Billionaire Francis Reboul is taking in the view at his coastal estate, awaiting the arrival of vacationing friends Sam Levitt and Elena Morales, when he spies a massive yacht whose passengers seem a little too interested in his...
8) A dog's life
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1996, ©1985
Language
English
Description
All about a dog named Boy. He recounts his days as a bachelor, his contempt for hunters, his love--after a fashion--for chickens, his amorous interludes and his run-ins with plumbers and other human annoyances. By the author of Toujours Provence, with drawings by Edward Koren.