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I like the Wodehouse Criminal Mastermind character – starting out as a villain, elderly and itching to reform, becoming a darling and spreading sweetness and light by the end. One does, since he just so happens to be a criminal mastermind in disguise. So he refuses to pay Yost his cut, as you can imagine, Yost is not too happy about this. Plum does not disappoint. The plot surprised me though because it was rather different from Wodehouse’s usual love triangle plot. If you knew Wodehoue but read this one blind you know what I mean!

The romances come out of nowhere and are not believable. Wodehouse I have read. Some ban,s the characters are sketched out in depth, especially the butler of the title. I love the way he speaks and how he’s the mastermind behind the gang. Very P G Wodehouse. My records only began inso I do not have a note of any I read before then.

Somehow the odd bits of modernity that crept in didn’t mesh with the bucolic landscape or the general sense that the story was actually set in a burtle earlier era. Even absent any of his recurring characters, Wodehouse can work wonders– bringing his typically word-perfect wit and economy to a burglary caper that’s got one hilarious mix-up after another.

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Amazon Kindle 0 editions. And then where you have burglary and gunmen, there are cops as well. I think some of what is lacking is due to the comic possibilities inherent in the upper-crust Eden of those stories, but a good deal is also owed to the clearly drawn images I have in my mind of that pair — not of their appearance, but of their characters.

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There are no discussion topics on this book yet. A short light-hearted romp. No one ever forgot the radio talks, even though Wodehouse was cleared of any propoganda. This book tells the story of a plan to rob a bank gone slightly awry.

Mike Bond has recently inherited Bond’s Bank from his late uncle. Open Preview See a Problem? Wodehouse had published his first book by Bkrgle went to school at Dulwich College, where he did well at cricket. Wodehouse is clearly past his best here but un-like Horace he nearly pulls it off.

CD Audiobook 0 editions. The style is Wodehouse’s classic, the story telling is what we’re used to from the author, but beats me how it still stands out. He is a very unusual butler, even for Wodehouse. Like most of Wodehouse’s later works, bhtlers flesh is a little more bare on the bones, compared to his earlier prose, but for fans this is well worth a read.

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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. To be honest, this one was a little odd. Return to Book Page. You will have a roller coaster sort of a ride when you get through this book. He was awarded a knighthood intwo months before he died Wodehouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest humorists of the 20th century, and and wrote nearly novels and collections of short stories, as well as plays, musicals and song lyrics.

Do Butlers Burgle Banks? Jill Willard is Mike’s fiance. Retrieved from ” https: This is a delightful and completely implausible tale of the burglary of a small town British bank.

Aug 21, Neal Jochmann rated it it was amazing. Views Read Edit View history. Lists with This Book. He was loved by everyone and wanted to stay loved, and the way to retain that universal esteem was to go on being Wallingford’s Lord Bountiful.

I’m sure that through this great site I will joyfully find at least a few I have not read, and be able to track them down.

Inpartly to escape tax authorities, Wodehouse and his wife bought a villa in Le Touquet on the coast of France.

The story unfolds in the manner of a blooming flower and unravels rapidly thereon. Sean O’Casey famously called him “English literature’s burble flea”, a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection nutlers his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.