Part two of the "The Inimitable Jeeves" bonanza. This covers the remaining eight chapters, or six stories: "Comrade Bingo", "The Great Sermon Handicap", "The Purity of the Turf", "The Metropolitan Touch", "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace" and "Bingo and the Little Woman". It also contains our attempt to rank all the stories in the book.
There will be plot spoilers, so take heed.
Next month: Leave it to Psmith with Ujjwal Deb.
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Reference works consulted
N. T. Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life
Richard Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the End
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website (specific page of annotations for this book, mostly by Mark Hodson)
Wikipedia
Other Wodehouse works mentioned
Ukridge
Psmith in the City
"The Rough Stuff"
"Jeeves and the Kid Clementina"
"Bertie Changes His Mind"
Right Ho, Jeeves
"The Good Angel"
A Damsel in Distress
Something Fresh
"Sundered Hearts"
Over Seventy
The Berlin wartime broadcasts
Also mentioned
The Empire Music Hall
David Lloyd George
Charlotte Corday
Jean-Paul Marat
Lyons' Tea House
Claud Cockburn
Thelma Cazalet-Keir (ed.), Homage to Wodehouse
Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
Arthur Marshall
The Edinburgh Castle
Recommended playlist
"The Red Flag"
Noel Coward, "Imagine the Duchess's Feelings" and "The Stately Homes of England"
Pet shop boys, "Opportunities"
Bourvil, "C'était bien (le petit bal perdu)"
The Ink Spots, "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall"
Ambrose and his Orchestra, "Limehouse Blues" and "B'wanga"
Ian Carmichael, "What Would I Do Without You, Jeeves" and "Bertie's Lucky Day"
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