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Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (The Plot That Thickened)
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UK Title: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
First published in UK: October 12 1972 by Barrie & Jenkins, London
US Title: The Plot That Thickened
First published in US: August 6 1973 by Simon & Schuster, New York

Russian translation

Monty Bodkin returns home to England after a year in America, his absence having strengthened his resolve to claim the hand in marriage of his intended, the hockey-playing Gertrude Butterwick. However, his association with an overweight Hollywood movie mogul, his redoubtable wife and even more formidable step-daughter sets the scene for complications. Add to this pot-pourri the piquant seasonings of a third-rate private detective, a devious pair of confidence tricksters and a string of pearls, and the course of true love certainly won't run smoothly for Monty...

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Characters

(Monty) Montrose Bodkin — Adviser for Productions for Superba-Llewellyn motion picture studio. Engaged to Gertrude Butterwick. Becomes Secretary to Ivor Llewellyn in the writing of his autobiography
(Sandy) Alexandra Miller — Monty's small, pretty and vivacious secretary who loves him
Gertrude Butterwick — Reggie Tennyson's hockey-playing cousin who lives at 11 Croxted Road, West Dulwich. Monty's fiancee
(Jumbo) Ivor Llewellyn — President of Superba-Llewellyn
Grayce Llewellyn — Ivor's domineering 5th and current wife, a former silent screen star and Mavis' mother
J. B. Butterwick — Gertrude's father, an import-export merchant
Mavis Mulligan — Grayce's imperious daughter by her first marriage to silent movie star Orlando Mulligan. A tall, handsome girl with a fine figure. Loves Jimmy Ponder
Chimp Twist — Professionally known as J. Sheringham Adair, Private Investigator. Supposed to be guarding Grayce's pearl necklace, he becomes Ivor's valet
Soapy Molloy — Con man posing as a rich American with oil interests. Tries to sell stock in non-existent oil wells
Dolly Molloy — Soapy's wife and professional shop-lifter
Jimmy Ponder — A Greek god with a small clipped moustache who is a partner in a jewelry firm. Bought oil stock from Soapy and gets engaged to Mavis
Wilfred Chisholm — Hockey-playing bounder for England who is in love with Gertrude. His full-time occupation is that of a policeman who tries to arrest Monty, with whom he was at school
Otto Flannery — Owns The Happy Prawn nightclub. Married Ivor's third wife, Gloria
Claude Witherspoon (*)

Synopsis
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