Hang on to your hat - here starteth the intricate hilarities that only Wodehouse could produce: Monty Bodkin thinks he is leaving a heartbroken secretary, and employer, movie studio magnate Ivor Llewelly behind him, so that he can go back to the substantial and english clasp of Gertrude Butterwick except that - he has to prove his fulfilled Gertrude's rich Dad's demands - that heartbroken secretary heads for England along with all the Llewellyns - a private detective cum crook is posing as butler - along with con couple Soapy and Dolloy Molloy, who are guests at the Butterwick mansion - and then there is that fabulous string of pearls.
Great fun, demands brain agility, a can't-put-it-down comedy. Don't read it in public or people will think your nuts.
Great fun, demands brain agility, a can't-put-it-down comedy. Don't read it in public or people will think your nuts.
All of the PG Wodehouse books I've read have been reading have been 'JEEVES & WOOSTER' and this is my first Monty Bodkin book. It is funny but not in the same class as the stories about woeful Wooster and his jaunty Jeeves. Montrose (Monty) is a wealthy member of the Drones Club who is in romantic trouble, as usual. Wodehouse is a master of quirky characters and impossible situations. Jonathan Cecil is the reader of this book and he's a delight.
Monty Bodkin Series (3 in the Series)
The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)
** Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972)
Bachelors Anonymous (1973)
Monty Bodkin Series (3 in the Series)
The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)
** Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972)
Bachelors Anonymous (1973)
