Young Jerry West has a few problems. His uncle Crispin is broke and employs a butler who isn't all he seems. His other uncle, Willoughby, is rich but won't hand over any of his inheritance. And to cap it all, although already engaged, Jerry has just fallen in love with the wonderful Jane Hunnicut, whom he's just met on jury service. But she's an heiress, and that's a problem too—because even if he can extricate himself from his grasping fianc├®e, Jerry can't be seen to be a gold digger.
Enter "the Girl in Blue"—a Gainsborough miniature which someone has stolen from Uncle Willoughby. Jerry sets out on a mission to find her—and somehow, hilariously, everything comes right.
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English
Release Day
Jun 30, 2013
Release Date
July 1, 2013
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1372636800
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Blackstone Publishing
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Blackstone Publishing
Categories
Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire, Genre Fiction, Classics, Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction - All, Fiction - Adult
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English humorist who
wrote novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of
journalism. He was highly popular throughout a career that lasted more than
seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. He is best
known for his novels and short stories of Bertie Wooster and his manservant
Jeeves and for his settings of English upper-class society of the pre– and
post–World War I era. He lived in several countries before settling in the United States after
World War II. During the 1920s, he collaborated with Broadway legends like Cole
Porter and George Gershwin on musicals and, in the 1930s, expanded his
repertoire by writing for motion pictures. He was honored with a knighthood in
1975.
Graham Seed trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He is probably best known as the voice of Nigel Pargetter in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, a part he’s been playing since 1979. His theater work includes spells with the Chichester Festival Theatre, the Almeida Company, the English Touring Theatre, and several national tours and pantos. His extensive television work includes Brideshead Revisited; Mike Leigh’s Who’s Who; I, Claudius; and Band of Brothers.
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Young Jerry West has a few problems. His uncle Crispin is broke and employs a butler who isn't all he seems. His other uncle, Willoughby, is rich but won't hand over any of his inheritance. And to cap it all, although already engaged, Jerry has just fallen in love with the wonderful Jane Hunnicut, whom he's just met on jury service. But she's an heiress, and that's a problem too—because even if he can extricate himself from his grasping fianc├®e, Jerry can't be seen to be a gold digger.
Enter "the Girl in Blue"—a Gainsborough miniature which someone has stolen from Uncle Willoughby. Jerry sets out on a mission to find her—and somehow, hilariously, everything comes right.
