Thank you, Jeeves

A Jeeves & Wooster novel

Complaints about his banjolele playing cause Bertie to move to a country cottage belonging to his old friend Chuffy and that leads Jeeves to resign. In the country Bertie encounters his latest ex-fiancée Pauline Stoker, her father, and Sir Roderick Glossop. Stoker intends to buy Chuffy's stately home with his newly acquired fortune. Chuffy falls for Pauline (it is mutual) but won't propose as she is an heiress.

An evening swim by Pauline leads to an uncomfortable night for Bertie. The knife-wielding valet, police harassment and a kidnapping only add to his woes.

Publishing Information

UK:	1934 Herbert Jenkins
	1975 Barrie & Jenkins with new preface
	1990 Vintage (used here)
US:	1934 Little, Brown
Canada:	1934 McClelland & Stewart

Previously published August 1933 to February 1934 in the Strand magazine and January to June 1934 in Cosmopolitan magazine (US).

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A complicated story with Bertie trying to help (as usual), making a mess of it (as usual) and sticking to the Code of the Woosters (as usual). Parts of the plot show frayed edges where the stitching isn't quite up to standard (e.g. Jeeves conveniently forgets that petrol would be an acceptable substitute) but that doesn't detract from the telling. And this was the first of the Jeeves and Wooster novels after a number of short stories.