Sunset at Blandings

Wodehouse (at long last Sir Pelham Wodehouse) died before he had finished this novel. It was in the form of a rough typescript (he had typed it himself as usual) of the bare-bones narrative and dialogue of the first sixteen chapters of a planned twenty-two. Its story keeps to the Blandings formula: a pretty niece brought to the castle to separate her, and cool her off, from an 'impossible' (i.e. poor) suitor in London; suitor infiltrated under an assumed name by Gally, as artist come to paint the Empress for the portrait gallery; Lord Emsworth innocently blowing the gaff to an angry sister. But there is a lot of good fresh stuff, even in this first-draft precis. Two new sisters (that gives Lord Emsworth ten in all) appear, one formidable as usual, the other, uniquely, nice. The formidable one is separated from a "weak' husband. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Piper, wants to propose to the nice one, but cannot do so with his Scotland Yard bodyguard always hovering. It goes practically without saying that Jimmy Piper had been a Pelican and a bit of a lad when young and indigent. But now he too needs Gally's help.

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