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Death At The Excelsior And Other Stories [with Biographical Introduction]
Death At The Excelsior And Other Stories [with Biographical Introduction]
96 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1921
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P.G. Wodehouse
1,680 books6,929 followersSir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.
Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.
Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).
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May 26, 2015
4 to 4-1/2 on this one. Two stories with Jeeves, brilliant stories, and then Wodehouse introduces a character I've never read named Reggie Pepper, who's as bone-headed and hilarious as any Wodehouse created.
I read this as part of a brilliant Goodreads group called "Reading Wodehouse" for the January 2015 read. I was drawn to the collection because of the title story, which was one of Wodehouse's only murder mystery stories. It was good; it didn't have the characteristic antics and quips, but it featured a great character named Ms. Snyder who reminded me of Jeeves.
The story "Jeeves in the Springtime" made me snort. Wooster runs into an old friend who's wearing a hideous necktie and he's repulsed by it apparently:
"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"
The last four stories are full of these quips and hijinks, not to mention some wonderful plot twists.
I would recommend this collection to anyone. (Btw, it's currently free from Kindle http://amzn.com/B004TPZYI0.)
I read this as part of a brilliant Goodreads group called "Reading Wodehouse" for the January 2015 read. I was drawn to the collection because of the title story, which was one of Wodehouse's only murder mystery stories. It was good; it didn't have the characteristic antics and quips, but it featured a great character named Ms. Snyder who reminded me of Jeeves.
The story "Jeeves in the Springtime" made me snort. Wooster runs into an old friend who's wearing a hideous necktie and he's repulsed by it apparently:
"My God, man!" I gargled. "The cravat! The gent's neckwear! Why? For what reason?"
The last four stories are full of these quips and hijinks, not to mention some wonderful plot twists.
I would recommend this collection to anyone. (Btw, it's currently free from Kindle http://amzn.com/B004TPZYI0.)
July 6, 2018
Comedy is hard, but Wodehouse makes it look effortless. I can't help thinking if only he had been a faster typist, what his total output might have been. Happily I continue to dole them out, one at a time, savoring.
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October 6, 2024
ENGLISH: This book contains seven Wodehouse stories published between 1911 and 1921 and collected posthumously. I have read them in another edition, together with four additional stories. Two are about Jeeves and three about Reggie Pepper. Those I've liked best are the following:
When Papa swore in Hindustani, the story of a pug and a girl with many lovesick swains, who want to win her love through a brilliant idea (all of them the same idea).
Misunderstood, the story of a pickpocket who seeks revenge against a policeman who had arrested him and becomes a paragon of social heroism. A quote from this story: "He felt in his pockets. Slowly, one by one, he pulled forth his little valuables. His knife... his revolver... the magistrate's gold watch... He inspected them sadly. They must all go.
Two quotes from Absent treatment, which is also included in the collection My man Jeeves:
Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of sense. I had known him, once or twice, show an almost human intelligence. But to reach that stratum, mind you, you needed dynamite.
I happened to meet Bobbie in Piccadilly, and he asked me to come back to dinner at the flat. And, like a fool, instead of bolting and putting myself under police protection, I went.
The story of the title reminds me of The biter bit by Wilkie Collins. In both, a sleuth convinced of his own skill fails signally.
ESPAÑOL: Este libro contiene siete cuentos de Wodehouse publicados entre 1911 y 1921, y en colección póstumamente. Las he leído en otra edición, junto con otras cuatro. Hay dos de Jeeves y tres de Reggie Pepper. Las que más me han gustado son las siguientes:
Cuando Papá juró en Hindustani, la historia de un doguito y una chica con muchos pretendientes, que quieren conquistar su amor mediante una idea brillante (todos tienen la misma idea).
Malentendido, la historia de un carterista que busca venganza contra un policía que lo arrestó y se convierte en un dechado de heroísmo social. Una cita de este cuento: "Rebuscó en sus bolsillos. Lentamente, uno por uno, sacó sus pequeños objetos de valor. Su cuchillo... su revólver... el reloj de oro del juez... Los inspeccionó con tristeza. Tenía que empeñarlos todos.
Dos citas de Absent treatment, incluido también en la colección My man Jeeves:
En el fondo [de Bobbie] había un estrato de buen sentido. Yo le vi, un par de veces, mostrar una inteligencia casi humana. Pero para llegar a ese estrato había que usar dinamita.
Me encontré con Bobbie en Piccadilly y me pidió que fuera a cenar a su piso. Y como un tonto fui, en lugar de salir corriendo y ponerme bajo protección policial.
El cuento del título me recuerda a El cazador cazado de Wilkie Collins. En ambos, un detective convencido de su propia habilidad falla rotundamente.
When Papa swore in Hindustani, the story of a pug and a girl with many lovesick swains, who want to win her love through a brilliant idea (all of them the same idea).
Misunderstood, the story of a pickpocket who seeks revenge against a policeman who had arrested him and becomes a paragon of social heroism. A quote from this story: "He felt in his pockets. Slowly, one by one, he pulled forth his little valuables. His knife... his revolver... the magistrate's gold watch... He inspected them sadly. They must all go.
Two quotes from Absent treatment, which is also included in the collection My man Jeeves:
Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of sense. I had known him, once or twice, show an almost human intelligence. But to reach that stratum, mind you, you needed dynamite.
I happened to meet Bobbie in Piccadilly, and he asked me to come back to dinner at the flat. And, like a fool, instead of bolting and putting myself under police protection, I went.
The story of the title reminds me of The biter bit by Wilkie Collins. In both, a sleuth convinced of his own skill fails signally.
ESPAÑOL: Este libro contiene siete cuentos de Wodehouse publicados entre 1911 y 1921, y en colección póstumamente. Las he leído en otra edición, junto con otras cuatro. Hay dos de Jeeves y tres de Reggie Pepper. Las que más me han gustado son las siguientes:
Cuando Papá juró en Hindustani, la historia de un doguito y una chica con muchos pretendientes, que quieren conquistar su amor mediante una idea brillante (todos tienen la misma idea).
Malentendido, la historia de un carterista que busca venganza contra un policía que lo arrestó y se convierte en un dechado de heroísmo social. Una cita de este cuento: "Rebuscó en sus bolsillos. Lentamente, uno por uno, sacó sus pequeños objetos de valor. Su cuchillo... su revólver... el reloj de oro del juez... Los inspeccionó con tristeza. Tenía que empeñarlos todos.
Dos citas de Absent treatment, incluido también en la colección My man Jeeves:
En el fondo [de Bobbie] había un estrato de buen sentido. Yo le vi, un par de veces, mostrar una inteligencia casi humana. Pero para llegar a ese estrato había que usar dinamita.
Me encontré con Bobbie en Piccadilly y me pidió que fuera a cenar a su piso. Y como un tonto fui, en lugar de salir corriendo y ponerme bajo protección policial.
El cuento del título me recuerda a El cazador cazado de Wilkie Collins. En ambos, un detective convencido de su propia habilidad falla rotundamente.
November 15, 2020
Gutenberg says this collection of short stories was especially compiled for them which surprises me, but then that's neither here nor there.
The title story is a complete departure for Wodehouse, being a detective story. Then we are given a rather odd little story of a minor crim's revenge gone wrong; my only complaint about that one is that is rather cut short, as if the author got tired of writing it or was over his deadline so far he was being threatened with legal action.
The rest of the collection is filled out with typical Wodehousian fodder of silly asses from the upper classes getting everything wrong and yet it somehow comes out right, not due to their grasp of events but because everyone ignores them. Nothing stellar here, but after a series of rather depressing reads it was a fizzy drink: a little too sweet, no substance, but refreshing. I do enjoy his use of language, as when he speaks of "a chunky silence". I've heard a few of those.
Ruskin Bond, whom I discover is a rather famous author, claims he grew up in India believing that Wodehouse's stories described real life somewhere in London. I do hope he was trying to be funny when he said that, because if he wasn't--well.
The title story is a complete departure for Wodehouse, being a detective story. Then we are given a rather odd little story of a minor crim's revenge gone wrong; my only complaint about that one is that is rather cut short, as if the author got tired of writing it or was over his deadline so far he was being threatened with legal action.
The rest of the collection is filled out with typical Wodehousian fodder of silly asses from the upper classes getting everything wrong and yet it somehow comes out right, not due to their grasp of events but because everyone ignores them. Nothing stellar here, but after a series of rather depressing reads it was a fizzy drink: a little too sweet, no substance, but refreshing. I do enjoy his use of language, as when he speaks of "a chunky silence". I've heard a few of those.
Ruskin Bond, whom I discover is a rather famous author, claims he grew up in India believing that Wodehouse's stories described real life somewhere in London. I do hope he was trying to be funny when he said that, because if he wasn't--well.
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July 18, 2018Project Gutenberg curated this solid collection of early Wodehouse stories. I'd read the two Jeeves and Wooster stories before, but the others were new to me, and I found them consistently bright and enjoyable, if not very meaty. But who reads Wodehouse for something to chew on? And I think I've gained an appreciation for Reggie Pepper now instead of spending the length of his stories wishing he were Bertie instead.
July 19, 2023
Death at the Excelsior is an engaging mystery full of wonderful characters. I never knew this author attempted to write mysteries but there you have it. It is funny and delightful. I am always looking for more obscure or unknown mysteries….sometimes it is really rewarding!
March 25, 2021
Shorts. The best star Jeeves or Reggie Pepper. The title story is the least successful.
August 12, 2015
So this is where all the stories for the later seasons of Jeeves and Wooster came from (the New York season). Also a number of other (quite funny, of course) short stories -- but it's absolutely mind-boggling to read the Wooster stories and realize how absolutely true Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry were to the characters.
December 10, 2019
3.5*
An interesting collection of short stories - I had read the 2 Jeeves stories before but the rest were new to me. I especially liked the 2 Reggie Pepper stories: "Concealed Art" and "The Test Case".
An interesting collection of short stories - I had read the 2 Jeeves stories before but the rest were new to me. I especially liked the 2 Reggie Pepper stories: "Concealed Art" and "The Test Case".
August 4, 2025
Wodehouse è una garanzia.
Un'antologia che parte con della lieve seriosità, per poi virare decisamente ai toni più faceti per cui ho sempre adorato P.G.
Sul giallo più "serio" è magari meno brillante, ma quando si tratta di mandarla in british caciara con Bertie, Jeeves & co. è sempre impareggiabile.
Sarò ripetitivo, ma quando volete qualcosa di leggero e divertente, uno dei miei primi consigli sarà sempre questo autore.
I miei voti ai singoli racconti:
Delitto all'Excelsior ★★★
Malintesi ★★★1/2
Il miglior companatico ★★1/2
Jeeves e Cyril l'idiota ★★★★1/2
Arte segreta ★★★★
L'unico tentativo ★★★★1/2
Un'antologia che parte con della lieve seriosità, per poi virare decisamente ai toni più faceti per cui ho sempre adorato P.G.
Sul giallo più "serio" è magari meno brillante, ma quando si tratta di mandarla in british caciara con Bertie, Jeeves & co. è sempre impareggiabile.
Sarò ripetitivo, ma quando volete qualcosa di leggero e divertente, uno dei miei primi consigli sarà sempre questo autore.
I miei voti ai singoli racconti:
Delitto all'Excelsior ★★★
Malintesi ★★★1/2
Il miglior companatico ★★1/2
Jeeves e Cyril l'idiota ★★★★1/2
Arte segreta ★★★★
L'unico tentativo ★★★★1/2
September 25, 2018
Death At The Excelsior is another brief read put together by Gutenberg. The lead story is a passable mystery that shows youngish PG was still experimenting with genres. The stars are the two Bertie stories, but since they will be repeated when reading the three short story collections of B & J, this is slender praise. The Reggie stories are interesting predecessors to the Jeeves Chronicles as they are somewhat Bertie alone. They are slightly different in vocabulary and rhythm, but if you changed the name of the lead character you might well feel they are stories of Bertie before Jeeves entered into his life.
January 10, 2018
I listened to Death at the Excelsior via Librivox audiobooks, in a volume of short stories that did not include Wodehouse's other stories.
I've never been a fan of Wodehouse, and I can't say I particularly liked this story, although the writing was good enough.
It was a simple enough story, a dead body, a locked room, and of course an apparently unsolvable mystery. But the characters were hard to like and the mystery was not actually very mysterious. Overall it just felt flat.
I've never been a fan of Wodehouse, and I can't say I particularly liked this story, although the writing was good enough.
It was a simple enough story, a dead body, a locked room, and of course an apparently unsolvable mystery. But the characters were hard to like and the mystery was not actually very mysterious. Overall it just felt flat.
August 10, 2021
The title story is an attempt at a murder mystery which isn't especially well executed.
"Misunderstood" is an attempt at a story about a Cockney criminal, again not especially well executed.
"The Best Sauce" features a young man who's fallen in love at first sight with a woman and got her dismissed as his sister's governess as a result. He follows (stalks) her to her next employer, who is awful, and eventually wears down her resistance to marrying him as an alternative to her current unbearable life. It reads, if you back up a bit and think about it, like the lead-up to a bad marriage that makes the participants miserable for the rest of their lives, but then a lot of Wodehouse romances do, more or less. This one rather more than less.
The two Jeeves stories are available elsewhere, and I'd already read them several times. And the remaining couple of stories are another of Wodehouse's interchangeable idiots making a farcical mess of things in the familiar manner, but don't have anything to set them apart particularly.
Dispensable.
"Misunderstood" is an attempt at a story about a Cockney criminal, again not especially well executed.
"The Best Sauce" features a young man who's fallen in love at first sight with a woman and got her dismissed as his sister's governess as a result. He follows (stalks) her to her next employer, who is awful, and eventually wears down her resistance to marrying him as an alternative to her current unbearable life. It reads, if you back up a bit and think about it, like the lead-up to a bad marriage that makes the participants miserable for the rest of their lives, but then a lot of Wodehouse romances do, more or less. This one rather more than less.
The two Jeeves stories are available elsewhere, and I'd already read them several times. And the remaining couple of stories are another of Wodehouse's interchangeable idiots making a farcical mess of things in the familiar manner, but don't have anything to set them apart particularly.
Dispensable.
May 14, 2024
Although the first story which carries the title of the book fully shows the talent of P.G. Wodehouse and contains the humor of which he is the undisputed master, it stands out from all his other works: it is a detective story. Unexpected perhaps, but Wodehouse demontstrates here that he can take main stage next to queen of crime Agatha Christie, Edgar Wallace or Arthur Conan Doyle. Even the creator of crime novels and supertalent Edgar Allan Poe.
Some other short stories are in line with what we expect from the works of Wodehouse, love scenes, romantic feelings, misunderstandings, happy endings and a lot of laughts. The stories with Jeeves and Bertie Wooster need no introduction, they will always stand out as superb.
The amazing thing is that Wodehouse not only excels with his novels but also manages to squeeze it all into a short story without loosing any of the quality. As sais already many times, none can do better.
Some other short stories are in line with what we expect from the works of Wodehouse, love scenes, romantic feelings, misunderstandings, happy endings and a lot of laughts. The stories with Jeeves and Bertie Wooster need no introduction, they will always stand out as superb.
The amazing thing is that Wodehouse not only excels with his novels but also manages to squeeze it all into a short story without loosing any of the quality. As sais already many times, none can do better.
October 29, 2018
Two Jeeves short stories, a detective story, a crime story, a love story, and two with a new (to me) character, Reggie Pepper. Reggie seems to be somewhat like Bertie, except he has no Jeeves to help with his schemes, so he has to pull them off by himself. This, as you might imagine, can be disastrous. I like the stand-alone stories, but I really prefer the recurring characters.
I need to start looking for these in the form of real books; I'd love to have them on my shelves instead of just in my Kindle.
I need to start looking for these in the form of real books; I'd love to have them on my shelves instead of just in my Kindle.
December 24, 2018
The first two stories were nothing special but "The Best Sauce" was worth the price of admission by itself and the rest were pretty good too. Definitely entertaining and classic Wodehouse.
October 4, 2020
Since i started, I decided to continue with Wodehouse for awhile for relaxation and fun.
Short stories, including several Jeeves stories.
Short stories, including several Jeeves stories.
December 5, 2024
I love me some Wodehouse, but this was a really weird collection
June 23, 2010
Since I love P.G. Wodehouse and I love the short story genre, this book was a natural. In this collection of short stories there are two Reggie Pepper stories--and I have to admit that I have never read a Reggie Pepper story before and I quite enjoyed him, and two Bertie Wooster and Jeeves stories. I admit that I love Wooster and Jeeves, primarily, no doubt, because I desperately need a Jeeves in my life. The other stories were also enjoyed with that P.G. Wodehouse flair for language and for humor. Highly recommended.
November 22, 2018
This short story collection is enjoyable, but not Wodehouse's best. With "Death at the Excelsior" he ventures into a sort of ironically wry detective story, just not his best genre. It wasn't funny. With the other stories in this collection he's back on home ground, including some of the famous Jeeves stories and other stories featuring slapstick reminiscences of that between-war younger generation of the British upper-class. In his own genre, no one can beat Wodehouse for laugh-out-loud humor.
January 4, 2009
More PJ. Python fans will find their roots in Wodehouse, no question about it. This is a small collection of short stories. I brazenly give five stars to pretty much anything I have read by Wodehouse -- except for his cricket stories. I will never quite understand them, because the game is utterly lost on me.
March 12, 2013
This collection is a real oddity in the Wodehousean universe. It's a collection of dark tales -- actual murder and mayhem -- from the pen of Our Comic Genius. It's the same expert writing, but curiously gentle: the form of the macabre without really getting nasty. Evil lite, but interesting because it is the work of a comic genius.
February 2, 2015
Wodehouse always nice, even in minor stories.
February 3, 2019
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November 25, 2021
3 Stars
I'm not sure quite what I was expecting from this collection of short stories. I decided to give this one a go because of the first story Death at the Excelsior as I didn't know that Wodehouse had written detective fiction only to realise that I had in fact read it before as it had been part of a collection of mysteries. Unfortunately, it's not the best Wodehouse or GAD story I've read. I'm not a massive fan of P G Wodehouse and can find Bertie Wooster quite irritating after a while. Luckily only a couple of these stories were of Jeeves and Wooster and I had read them before. One of the stories I actually found quite disturbing, involving as it does a companion whose employer's brother falls in unrequited love with her at first sight and is sacked because her employer disapproves of the bother's choice. Only to find when she has to take a new job with a disagreeable woman the aforementioned brother wangles his way into her new employer's house in his unwanted pursuit of her. She is inventive in trying to discourage him but as you might guess he eventually wins her heart and it just seems icky that the stalker wins in the end. I did find this quite atypical of Wodehouse stories which usually contain quite strong minded females. The final two stories contain Reggie Pepper very I've never heard of before and seems a slightly more together version of Bertie Wooster, but not necessarily by much, and these I did enjoy.
I'm not sure quite what I was expecting from this collection of short stories. I decided to give this one a go because of the first story Death at the Excelsior as I didn't know that Wodehouse had written detective fiction only to realise that I had in fact read it before as it had been part of a collection of mysteries. Unfortunately, it's not the best Wodehouse or GAD story I've read. I'm not a massive fan of P G Wodehouse and can find Bertie Wooster quite irritating after a while. Luckily only a couple of these stories were of Jeeves and Wooster and I had read them before. One of the stories I actually found quite disturbing, involving as it does a companion whose employer's brother falls in unrequited love with her at first sight and is sacked because her employer disapproves of the bother's choice. Only to find when she has to take a new job with a disagreeable woman the aforementioned brother wangles his way into her new employer's house in his unwanted pursuit of her. She is inventive in trying to discourage him but as you might guess he eventually wins her heart and it just seems icky that the stalker wins in the end. I did find this quite atypical of Wodehouse stories which usually contain quite strong minded females. The final two stories contain Reggie Pepper very I've never heard of before and seems a slightly more together version of Bertie Wooster, but not necessarily by much, and these I did enjoy.
April 3, 2020
Wodehouse Reigns
This book of stories is typical Wodehouse. These soul-lifting tales prove that the short story can be just as artful as a novel when the author is supremely talented. And anybody with knowledge of what makes for superior writing knows Wodehouse reigns supreme. I loved all of the stories, but the Jeeves story alone earns this work five stars. Many people argue that writing an excellent short story is more difficult than writing an excellent novel. That's another reason I believe this book deserves the fifth star. The best reason for this book's superior rating is the way the ends of my mouth can't help but curl up and stay up as the pages float by. Even more telling -- as I began the Jeeves story I realized I had read it only last week. But by jove, I read it again. Every single word. And I enjoyed it just as much. Now that is proof that the writing and the writer still reign a century later.
This book of stories is typical Wodehouse. These soul-lifting tales prove that the short story can be just as artful as a novel when the author is supremely talented. And anybody with knowledge of what makes for superior writing knows Wodehouse reigns supreme. I loved all of the stories, but the Jeeves story alone earns this work five stars. Many people argue that writing an excellent short story is more difficult than writing an excellent novel. That's another reason I believe this book deserves the fifth star. The best reason for this book's superior rating is the way the ends of my mouth can't help but curl up and stay up as the pages float by. Even more telling -- as I began the Jeeves story I realized I had read it only last week. But by jove, I read it again. Every single word. And I enjoyed it just as much. Now that is proof that the writing and the writer still reign a century later.
July 20, 2018
Non-Jeeves stories are skippable. Though early, the Jeeves ones are as good as always:
"How's the weather, Jeeves?"
"Exceptionally clement, sir."
"Anything in the papers?"
"Some slight friction threatening in the Balkans, sir. Otherwise, nothing."
July 4, 2022
Sei racconti leggeri ma con una prosa di tutto rispetto, sicuramente l’umorismo dell’autore è il tratto distintivo che rende i racconti piacevoli e divertenti.
Scorrevoli, brevi ma che rendono da subito partecipe il lettore.
Tutti ambientati in Inghilterra e ad eccezione di due di essi l’autore incarna la voce narrante esterna che guida il racconto
Scorrevoli, brevi ma che rendono da subito partecipe il lettore.
Tutti ambientati in Inghilterra e ad eccezione di due di essi l’autore incarna la voce narrante esterna che guida il racconto
January 13, 2023
While still spectacularly written, I didn’t love the detective story or other stories that didn’t fit Wodehouse’s comedic format. The Reggie Pepper stories, which were much more his usual fare, were almost as delightful as the two Wooster stories in this volume. Regardless, always a joy to read anything of his and marvel at his turns of phrase.
July 13, 2019
The titular story is a mystery tale and is probably the weakest of the lot. Wodehouse was best at portraying the world of twits "to the manner born." The two Jeeves stories are excellent and the Reggie Pepper stories are also fun. Wodehouse is one of the most hilarious writers ever, so enjoy.
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