Book description
A Blandings novel
Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle - particularly
the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite
with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's
sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives unexpectedly from
New York. Skulduggery is also afoot involving the sale of a modern
nude painting (mistaken by Lord Emsworth for a pig). It's enough to
take the noble earl on the short journey to the end of his wits.
Luckily Clarence's brother Galahad Threepwood, cheery survivor of
the raffish Pelican Club, is on hand to set things right, restore
sundered lovers and even solve all the mysteries.
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.
