Ring for Jeeves

p.g. wodehouse

The only Jeeves story in which Bertie Wooster makes no appearance, involves Jeeves on secondment as butler and general factotum to William Belfry, ninth Earl of Rowcester (pronounced Roaster). Despite his impressive title, Bill Belfry is broke, which may explain why he and Jeeves have been working as Silver Ring bookies, disguised in false moustaches and loud check suits. All goes well until the terrifying Captain Brabazon-Biggar, big-game hunter, two-fisted he-man and saloon-bar bore, lays successful bets on two outsiders, leaving the would-be bookies three thousand pounds down and on the run from their creditor. But now the incandescent Captain just happens to be the former flame of Rosalinda Spottsworth, a rich American widow to whom Bill is attempting to sell his crumbling stately home...

Genres fictionhumorclassicscomedyaudiobookbritish literaturehistorical fiction20th centurynovelsliterature

240 pages, Hardcover

First published April 22,1953

Series

Jeeves

Places

southmoltonshire,

This edition

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Published: April 12, 2004 by The Overlook Press
ISBN: 9781585675241
ASIN: 1585675245
Language: English

Characters More characters

Reginald Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the "gentlemans personal gentleman" (valet) of Bertie Wooster (Bertram Wilberforce Wooster). Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodeh...
Cuthbert Gervase Brabazon-biggar

Capt. Cuthbert Gervase Brabazon-Biggar, white hunter in Ring For Jeeves, wins a large bet booked by Bill Belfry and Jeeves. Tough, square, chunky, weatherbeaten, with a very red face and small bristly moustache. In his middle forties, lives at the United ...
Bill Rowcester

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Jill Wyvern

Jill Wyvern, daughter of Col. Aubrey Wyvern in Ring For Jeeves. The local veterinarian in Southmoltonshire, small, young, alert, slightly freckled, engaged to W.E.O. Belfry, ninth Earl of Towcester....
William Egerton Bamfylde Ossingham Belfry

William Egerton Bamfylde Ossingham Belfry, ninth Earl of Towcester (pron. Toaster) or Rowcester in Ring For Jeeves, master of a dilapidated 147-room Towcester Abbey in Southmoltonshire. Brother of Moke Carmoyle. Was a Commando in WWII. A Drone and far fro...
Rosalinda Banks Bessemer Spottsworth

Rosalinda Banks Bessemer Spottsworth, rich American widow in Ring For Jeeves. Born Rosalinda Banks of Chillicothe, Ohio, her first husband was Clifton Bessemer, the Pulp Paper Magnate, who died in a head-on collision with a beer truck; her second was Alex...

About the author

p.g. wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song Bill in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin/Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).