Lord Emsworth and Others (Crime Wave at Blandings)

The Crime Wave at Blandings 1936-10-10 Saturday Evening Post (US) 1937-01 Strand (UK) The Medicine Girl (US version of Doctor Sally) 1931-07-04 Colliers (US) Buried Treasure 1936-09 Strand (UK) The Masked Troubadour 1936-12 Strand (UK) Romance at Droitgate Spa 1937-02-20 Saturday Evening Post (US) 1937-08 Strand (UK) All's Well with Bingo 1937-01-30 Saturday Evening Post (US) 1937-04 Strand (UK) Tried in the Furnace 1935-10 Strand (UK) 1939-03 Cosmopolitan (US)

Nine short stories, The Crime Wave at Blandings, more than twice as long as the usual P.G.W. short story, is the only Blandings one in this collection. Three others are about Ukridge. Three are told by the Oldest Member about golf, one by Mr Mulliner and one about Freddie Widgeon, by a Crumpet at the Drones. In 'The Crime Wave at Blandings' the efficient Baxter returns to the castle, much to the annoyance of a) Lord Emsworth, who had hoped never to see this, his first secretary, again and b) Lord Emsworth's grandson George, who finds himself threatened with an unexpected tutor plum spang in the middle of his holidays. But Baxter leaves, and hurriedly, after being shot at, unerringly, with an air-gun by a) George b) Beach the butler and c) Lord Emsworth himself, twice. Meanwhile Lord Emsworth's pretty niece Jane gets the man of her choice, poor, nice George Abercrombie, and rejects the man of Aunt Connie's choice, rich, boring Lord Roegate.

Source: Richard Usborne. Plum Sauce. A P G Wodehouse Companion.