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Service with a Smile

A Blandings / Uncle Fred novel

Myra Schoonmaker is brought to Blandings to keep her away from penniless curate Bill Bailey. But this doesn't concern Lord Emsworth who has his own troubles, not least a new secretary, an infestation of Church Lads and the mad Duke of Dunstable after his Lordship's prize pig again.

Happily, Lord Emsworth has the presence of mind to enlist the services of Lord Ickenham.

Publishing Information

UK:1962 Herbert Jenkins
1966 Penguin (used here)
US:1961 Simon & Schuster

Also published in abridged form on 26 August and 2 September, 1961 in Star Weekly (Toronto).

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Featuring one Duke, two Earls, a Viscount and an Empress, this aristocratic adventure is one of Sir Pelham's finest.