Animals behaving badly, other people's misfortunes and the most bizarre true crime story ever. International bestseller, French Fried, is the unfortunately true account of Chris Dolley's first eight months in France and has been described as 'A Year in Provence with Miss Marple and Gerald Durrell.' Just when Chris and Shelagh think nothing more could possibly go wrong, they discover that Chris's identity has been stolen and their life savings - all the money from their house sale in England that was going to finance their new life in France - had disappeared. A bank account had been opened in Chris's name in Spain to take the proceeds. Then they're abandoned by the police forces of four countries who all insist the crime belongs in someone else's jurisdiction. The French say it's an Irish crime as that's where the money was held. The Irish say it's French as that's where all the correspondence came from. The British say it's nothing to do with them even though forged British passports were used to open the bank account in Spain. And the Spanish are on holiday - and can't even think about investigating any bank account for at least four weeks. So Chris has to solve the crime himself. But unlike fictional detectives he has an 80 year-old mother-in-law and an excitable puppy who insist they come along if he's going anywhere interesting - like a stakeout.

动物的恶劣行为、他人的不幸和最离奇的真实犯罪故事。国际畅销书《法式炒作》是克里斯-多尔利在法国头八个月的不幸真实记录，被描述为 "与马普尔小姐和杰拉尔德-杜瑞尔一起在普罗旺斯的一年"。正当克里斯和希拉格认为不可能再出什么差错时，他们发现克里斯的身份被盗，他们一生的积蓄--他们在英国卖房所得的所有钱，本来是用来资助他们在法国的新生活的--已经消失了。在西班牙以克里斯的名义开了一个银行账户，以获取收益。然后他们被四个国家的警察部队抛弃了，他们都坚持认为该罪行属于其他人的管辖范围。法国人说这是爱尔兰的犯罪，因为钱就在那里。爱尔兰人说这是法国的犯罪，因为所有的信件都来自那里。英国人说这与他们无关，尽管伪造的英国护照被用来在西班牙开设银行账户。而西班牙人正在度假--在至少四个星期内，他们甚至不能考虑调查任何银行账户。因此，克里斯必须自己解决这个犯罪问题。但与虚构的侦探不同的是，他有一个80岁的岳母和一只兴奋的小狗，如果他要去任何有趣的地方--比如监视，他们坚持要一起去。