Book description
A Blandings novel
The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming
passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared.
Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty - from
Galahad Threepwood (who is writing memoirs so scandalous they will
rock the aristocracy to its foundations) to the Efficient Baxter,
chilling former secretary to Lord Emsworth. Even Beach the Butler
seems deeply embroiled. And what of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe,
Clarence's arch-rival, and his passion for prize-winning pigs? This
comic masterpiece is vintage Blandings, and P. G. Wodehouse at his best.
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.
