Book description
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
Bertie Wooster looks pretty stylish in his new Tyrolean hat - or so
he thinks: others, notably Jeeves, disagree. But when Bertie embarks
on an errand of mercy to Totleigh Towers, things get quickly out of
control and he's going to need all the help Jeeves can provide. There
are good eggs present, such as Gussie Fink-Nottle and the Rev.
'Stinker' Pinker. But there also is Sir Watkyn Bassett J. P., enemy of
all the Woosters hold dear, to say nothing of his daughter Madeline
and Roderick Spode, now raised to the peerage. And Major Brabazon
Plank, the peppery explorer, who wants to lay Bertie out cold.
Thank goodness for the intervention of Chief Inspector Witherspoon
of Scotland Yard - but is this gentleman all he seems?
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.
