P. G Wodehouse

When Bill Bannister meets Dr. Sally Smith, love blossoms immediately. Unfortunately, there is just the small problem of Lottie Higginbotham, former actress, serial bride, and human fireball, with whom Bill is already involved. The well-meaning interference of Bill's old friend, Squiffy Tidmouth, once married to Lottie, only complicates matters further-until everything is straightened out in a series of comic encounters at Bill's ancestral home and...

Henry Pifield Rice is a detective, technically. He prides himself in his disguises, which are, in truth, pretty deplorable. So when he's detailed to follow a touring theatrical romantic comedy, his life is absolutely transformed. P.G. Wodehouse had the rare gift of writing humor that stands the test of time. Most famous for his Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels, he also a talented playwright and lyricist, and worked with Cole Porter on Anything Goes,...

“P.G. Wodehouse is still the funniest writer ever to have put words on paper.” —Hugh Laurie Ronald Psmith (“the ‘p’ is silent, as in pshrimp”) is always willing to help a damsel in distress. So when he sees Eve Halliday without an umbrella during a downpour, he nobly offers her an umbrella, even though it’s one he picks out of the Drone Club’s umbrella rack. Psmith is so besotted with Eve that, when Lord Emsworth, her new boss,...

"While staying with his Aunt Dahlia to help out in the election at Market Snodsbury, Bertie Wooster comes up against the familiar horrors of Florence Craye, his former fianee, and Roderick Spode, head of the Black Shorts, in a plot tangle from which, as usual, only the ingenuity of Jeeves can save him"--P.

Contents : Return of Jeeves--Bertie Wooster sees it through--Spring fever--Butler did it--Old reliable.

"Bertie and Jeeves are back for another spot of what Jeeves likes to call 'quiescent espionage' ... This time Bertie is required to impersonate a priest and journey to Cambridge, where the Seventh Earl of Sidcup, aspiring fascist Roderick Spode, is wooing undergraduates to his gang of Brown Shorts. Bertie accepts his charge with equanimity, even when required to do some 'nightclimbing' (an undergrad frolic involving skipping to and fro atop the towers...

A chance meeting on a train brought together Lord Ickenham and Bill Oakshott—although being told that the love of his life, Hermione, was engaged to none other than Pongo, Lord Ickenham's nephew, did make Bill feel like he'd been struck behind the ear. But Pongo has troubles of his own to deal with when he accidently breaks one of Hermione's father's prized statues—and winds up replacing it with a smuggling vessel full of jewels.

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