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Right Ho, Jeeves

Brinkley Manor (U.S.)

A Jeeves & Wooster novel

Already trying to bring newt fancier Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett together, Bertie Wooster is summoned by his Aunt Dahlia to help heal the rift between cousin Angela and Tuppy Glossop. But Madeline gets the wrong idea about Bertie's intentions, orange-juice addict Gussie discovers the effects of alcohol first hand and Uncle Tom faces an income-tax demand. Can Bertie save the day or will he have to ask Jeeves?

Publishing Information

UK:1934 Jenkins
1953 Penguin (used here)
US:1934 Little, Brown as Brinkley Manor
Canada:1934 McClelland & Stewart

Published in the Saturday Evening Post (US) in seven parts from 17 December 1933 to 27 January 1934.

Also published April 1936 in Men Only magazine on five pages only. It is either an extract or a severe abridgement.

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A complicated plot with Bertie doing most of the thinking instead of Jeeves - oh dear! Many regard the scene with Gussie at the prize-giving as one of P.G.'s best.

The income tax theme is due to Wodehouse's own troubles with tax at this time, something to do with earnings in the UK and the US getting taxed in both countries - a sort of double jeopardy - which resulted in PG living in France. Most countries now have agreements to stop this happening. The dedicatee, Raymond Needham K. C. was PG's counsel (leading lawyer) in his appeal against the UK tax authorities.

'I inspected my imagination. He was right. It boggled.'