Book description
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
The beefy 'Stilton' Cheesewright has drawn Bertie Wooster as red-hot
favourite in the Drones club annual darts tournament - which is lucky
for Bertie because otherwise Stilton would have beaten him to a pulp
and buttered the lawn with him. Stilton does not, after all like men
who he thinks are trifling with his fiancée's affections.
Meanwhile Bertie has committed a more heinous offence by growing a
moustache, and Jeeves strongly disapproves - which is unfortunate,
because Jeeves's feudal spirit is desperately needed. Bertie's Aunt
Dahlia is trying to sell her magazine Milady's Boudoir to the Trotter
Empire and still keep her amazing chef Anatole out of Lady Trotter's
clutches. And Bertie? Bertie simply has to try to hold onto his
moustache and hope he gets to the end in one piece.
The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves,
Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P. G.
Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two
years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer,
contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and
short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage
had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in
the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue
Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.
