- Mystery
- Monsieur Mustard collection
- Ages 7–10
Monsieur Mustard
Part of the collectionMonsieur Mustard→A comic detective series for 7+ starring a tiny, dapper Parisian mouse - fast, silly and stuffed with colour illustrations for readers who love a mystery to look at.
- Books1 / 2
- Arcs1
- Span2026
- StatusOngoing
The series
At a glance.
The Monsieur Mustard series follows the world's number one, best-dressed and possibly smallest detective - a Parisian mouse newly settled in Bath - as he solves comic mysteries with a cast of odd, endearing friends. The debut, The Disappearance of Fabio Fangtooth, opens when a restaurant owner vanishes mid-soup and Mustard reads of it in the local paper. With Mobbsy the flatulent master-of-disguise shrew and Professor Thingummy the food-obsessed inventor at his side, he sets out to crack the case before the villain catches him first. Written and illustrated by Charley Rabbit, the books are stuffed with colour illustrations throughout and break into full graphic-novel pages for their most thrilling detective scenes: funny, fast and gloriously silly.
A comic detective series for 7+ starring a tiny, dapper Parisian mouse - fast, silly and stuffed with colour illustrations for readers who love a mystery to look at.
A new series; start with the debut, The Disappearance of Fabio Fangtooth.
One arc
The shape of the series.
- IStandalone collection arcLow sensitivity
Monsieur Mustard
The series opener: a dapper mouse detective takes on a restaurant owner's disappearance in Bath.
The first Monsieur Mustard adventure opens when Fabio Fangtooth vanishes mid-alphabet-soup one quiet evening in Bath. Enter Monsieur Mustard, a Parisian mouse newly moved to the city and unable to resist a mystery, who reads of the disappearance in the local paper and sets out to crack the case. With help from a cast of splendidly odd new friends - Mobbsy, a flatulent shrew and master of disguise, and Professor Thingummy, a food-obsessed inventor - Mustard closes in on a villain who may just catch him first. Stuffed with colour illustrations and breaking into full graphic-novel pages for its most thrilling scenes, it is a funny, fast, gloriously silly entry point for newly confident readers who love a mystery.
Fit check
Right for your reader?
Where the series lands by age
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- Best fit · 7–10
- Read aloud · 6–9
- Independent · 7–10
Reluctant-reader friendliness
Very high
Read-aloud quality
Strong
Adult crossover
Low
Grows with the reader
Not especially
Sensitivity envelope
Low overall, and consistent.
Where it sits
In conversation with other series.
Similar in feel
Different shelves, same wavelength.
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