The Crime Wave at Blandings

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Author: Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975) Year: 1937 Publisher: Doubleday, Doran Company, Inc Place: Garden City Description: 330 pages with deckle fore edge pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with dark green lettering to spine and pictorial to cover and spine in original pictorial jacket. (Jasen: 57a; McIlvaine A58a) First American edition. The Crime Wave at Blandings is a collection of seven short works, including one story set at Blandings Castle, a tale narrated by Mr Mulliner, and one story featuring Drones Club member Freddie Widgeon, to which were added two more Drones stories, a Bingo Little story, and a novella, "The Medicine Girl", which had been published separately in Britain as Doctor Sally (1932). The master of Blandings is, nominally at least, Lord Emsworth. Clarence, the ninth Earl, is an amiably absent-minded old chap, who is charming because of his slow, relaxed lifestyle and the simple obsessions that make him oblivious to the absurd melodrama of his family, namely his home, gardens, pumpkins, and his champion pig, Empress of Blandings. He is never happier than when pottering about the grounds on a fine sunny day. Lord Emsworth's ten sisters (all of whom look like the "daughter of a hundred earls", except for Hermione, who looks like a cook), his brother Galahad ("Gally"), his daughter Mildred, his sons Freddie and George, and his numerous nieces, nephews, and in-laws inhabit the castle from time to ti

• Binding: Hardcover

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