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Jeeves in the Offing

How Right You Are, Jeeves (U.S.)

A Jeeves & Wooster novel

Bertie Wooster is invited to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court; she wants him to keep her god-daughter Phyllis away from New York playboy Willie Cream. Shortly after, Bertie is shocked to read the announcement of his engagement to Roberta Wickham - he hadn't even proposed. Fortunately, she's also at Brinkley.

On arrival, Bertie is further surprised to find Sir Roderick Glossop, the well-known loony doctor, posing as a butler. And Jeeves is on his annual holiday ...

Publishing Information

UK:1960 Herbert Jenkins
1963 Penguin (used here)
US:1960 Simon & Schuster as How Right You Are, Jeeves

Also published in John Bull (UK weekly) magazine from 29 August 1959 to 19 September as How Right You Are, Jeeves.

Also published in Playboy magazine, February 1960. At five pages, this must be a heavily abridged version.

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Better than the previous Jeeves and Wooster offering - unlike with one of Ma Cream's books, you won't doze off in the middle of Chapter 2.