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Uncle Fred in the Springtime

A Blandings / Uncle Fred novel

A tale of two uncles. Uncle One is the Duke of Dunstable, uncle to Horace and Ricky. He wants Lord Emsworth's prize pig, the Empress of Blandings. Uncle Two is Lord Ickenham who wants only to spread sweetness and light by helping his niece Valerie, who wants to marry Horace, his nephew Pongo, who has to pay off a bookie, and Ricky, who wants to open an onion soup bar and marry Polly.

Stir in one private investigator, a suspicious secretary, a brain specialist and a whistling gardener and it's not just onion in the soup.

Publishing Information

UK:1939 Herbert Jenkins
1954 Penguin (used here)
US:1939 Doubleday & Co
Canada:1939 McClelland & Stewart

Previously published in the Saturday Evening Post (US) from 22 April to 27 May 1939.
It was probably also published as Springtime for Uncle in the Sunday Graphic (UK) from 25 June to 30 July 1939.

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Classic Wodehouse at the peak of his powers (and a plot so wrapped up that I can only hint at it here.) Our 13th visit to Blandings - unlucky for some but not for us.