P.G. Wodehouse

"While staying with his Aunt Dahlia to help out in the election at Market Snodsbury, Bertie Wooster comes up against the familiar horrors of Florence Craye, his former fiancée, and Roderick Spode, head of the Black Shorts, in a plot tangle from which, as usual, only the ingenuity of Jeeves can save him"--P. [4] of cover.

Much Obliged Jeeves

Gavin

Wooster's taboo: Playing the banjolele (flashback).
Triangle: Spode-Bassett-Bertie-Florence-Ginger-Magnolia
Subplot: Tuppy and Runkle's hangover cure 
Aunt: Dahlia
Antagonist: Spode, Runkle, the actually evil Bingley.
Expedient: spiking a cad's drink, thieving a porringer, fixing some hustings, blackmail.

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Pretty bloody dark actually:


  "You mean you slipped him a Mickey Finn?"
"I believe that is what they are termed in the argot, madam."
"Do you always carry them about with you?"
"I am seldom without a small supply, madam."
"Never know when they won't come in handy, eh?"
"Precisely, madam. Opportunities for their use are constantly arising."



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Riah Forbes 

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Much Obliged, Jeeves

Ramona Crumlish

"A Jeeves and Wooster novel It is a time of stress at Market Snodsbury as Bertie must protect himself from the affections of Madeline Bassett. 'The prospect of being linked for life to a girl who would come down at breakfast and put her hands over my eyes and say "Guess who" had given my morale a sickening wallop. It is always my policy in times of crisis to try to look on the bright side, but I make one proviso - viz. that there has to be a bright side to look on, and in the present case there wasn't even the sniff of one.' If only Jeeves could come to the aid of the young master...

Much Obliged Jeeves

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