The item which the plot revolves around is the necklace (nearly all Blandings plots revolve around an item which needs to be recovered). Among the players is Psmith's good friend Mike, married to Phyllis and in dire need of some financial help the ever-suspicious Rupert Baxter is on watch as usual. The plot is a typical Wodehouse romance, with Psmith inveigling himself into the idyllic castle, where there are the usual crop of girls to woo, crooks to foil, imposters to unmask, haughty aunts to baffle and valuable necklaces to steal.

Plot introduction Īlthough the main character is Psmith (here called Ronald Eustace rather than Rupert as in previous books, possibly to differentiate him from Rupert Baxter), the bulk of the story takes place at Blandings Castle and involves various intrigues within the extended family of Lord Emsworth, the absent-minded elderly Earl. The book is dedicated to his step-daughter Leonora Wodehouse, referred to as 'Queen of her species'. The Blandings saga would be continued in many more novels and shorts. It was also the second novel set at Blandings Castle, the first being Something Fresh (1915).

It was the fourth and final novel featuring Psmith, the others being Mike (1909) (later republished in two parts, with Psmith appearing in the second, Mike and Psmith (1953)), Psmith in the City (1910), and Psmith, Journalist (1915) – in his introduction to the omnibus The World of Psmith, Wodehouse said that he had stopped writing about the character because he couldn't think of any more stories. It had previously been serialised, in the Saturday Evening Post in the US between 3 February and 24 March 1923, and in the Grand Magazine in the UK between April and December that year the ending of this magazine version was rewritten for the book form. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1923 by Herbert Jenkins, London, England, and in the United States on 14 March 1924 by George H. Leave It to Psmith is a comic novel by English author P. Psmith, Journalist (Psmith), Something Fresh (Blandings)īlandings Castle and Elsewhere (shorts), Summer Lightning (novel)

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