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Quick Service

A novel

When Sally Fairmile visits J. B. Duff, her fiancé's trustee, she encounters Joss Weatherby. Finding himself sacked and in love with Sally, Joss takes a job as valet at Claines Hall, where Sally lives. There he charms his hostess, persuades his employer to wear a stiff shirt, bribes a butler, plots with a man with a false moustache and still finds time to woo Sally. As J. B. says, 'Fresh!'.

Publishing Information

UK:1940 Herbert Jenkins
1954 Penguin (used here)
US:1940 Doubleday, Doran
Canada:1941 Longmans, Green & Co

First published 4 May to 22 June 1940 in the Saturday Evening Post (US).

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A decent length, so maybe not quick service but certainly good service. One from the golden period - and it shows.