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Undoubtedly one of my favorite P.G. Wodehose books. It is very similar in style and content to the other Jeeves and Wooster books, and in fact after reading too many of them you might rightly feel as though they are all good-natured rearrangements of the same comic furniture. We have engagements, both Good and Bad. We have a trinket of some kind, the attainment and location of which is a constant source of stress. There's love, confusion, petty theft, mistaken identity, and of course a variety of sticky situations from which the characters are only able to extricate themselves with the help of Wooster's unflappable butler.

While this book follows the typical Wodehouse plot, it just feels more polished than many of his other works. There magnificent synchronicity with which the subplots stumble into each other is nearly without parallel in the Wodehouse canon. Perhaps I read it at a vulnerable time, but it also caused me to laugh out loud so much that my wife's repeated remarks of "Gee, you're really enjoying that book" began to take on a worried tone. While it's hard to go wrong with Jeeves and Wooster, this one comes especially well reocmmended.

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4.0

The New York Times Book Review (25 August 1946): “Maybe Wodehouse uses the same plot over and over again. Whatever he does, it's moderately wonderful, a ray of pale English sunshine in a gray world".

Sums things up very well, even more than 75 years on.

Edwin Craye is the jewel in the comedic crown here. Oh, to be able to boot the little hellion masquerading as do-gooder in the backside, as Boko and Bertie did.