![]() ![]() He needs £1000 to get a share in a bookies business & he concoct a scheme with his uncle, millionaire Joe Keeble, to steal his aunt, Lady Constance Keeble’s, diamond necklace. Freddie has just had to be bailed out again because of his gambling debts & his father won t give him any more money. The Hon Freddie Threepwood, second son of the Earl of Emsworth sees the ad & decides that Psmith is the man for him. So, he puts an advertisement in the papers, offering his services for any task, crime not excepted (Providing It has Nothing To Do With Fish). His uncle got him in to it & now Psmith is tired of standing up to his knees in cold, wet fish all day. Psmith (the P is silent) is a young man who wants to get out of the fish business. I lost count of the number of impostors, jewel thieves, amazing coincidences & overturned flower pots at Blandings Castle but it was a lot of fun trying to work out who was trying to do what to whom. Leave it to Psmith has one of the most convoluted plots of any Wodehouse novel I’ve read so far. ![]()
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