Adele And Co Author:Dornford Yates This is the first full-length novel featuring Yates' finest comic creation, Bertram 'Berry' Pleydell. The popular character of Adéle is based on the author's first wife, Bettine, a highly gregarious American dancer and actress. Written in response to massive public demand for the Berry stories, which already had a wide readership through the pag... more »es of Windsor Magazine, this is regarded as one of Yates' best books. Featuring the madcap escapades of the Pleydell clan as they career about the French countryside, you will find here 'crime, criminals, and some of the funniest writing in the English language'« less