Book description
A Jeeves novel
Captain Biggar, big-game hunter and all round tough guy, should make
short work of the two bookies who have absconded with his winnings
after a freak double made him a fortune. But on this occasion Honest
Patch Perkins and his clerk are not as they seem. In fact they're not
bookies at all, but the impoverished Bill Belfry, Ninth Earl of
Rowcester and his temporary butler, Jeeves.
Bertie Wooster has gone away to a special school teaching the
aristocracy to fend for itself 'in case the social revolution sets in
with even greater severity'. But Jeeves will prove just as resourceful
without his young master, and brilliant brainwork may yet square the
impossible circle for all concerned.
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.
