The Girl in Blue

p.g. wodehouse

Jerry has been summoned to sit on the jury where he meets the delightful Jane, with whom he falls instantly in love. He is deliriously happy until he remembers he is already engaged to Vera Upshaw-who has been hounding Jerry to claim his inheritance, currently kept in trust by Uncles Crispin and Willoughby. Meanwhile, Willoughby is thrilled at being the proud owner of Gainsborough's small painting, The Girl in Blue, but when she goes missing and is believed to be stolen, Jerry is called upon to track her down, wherever she may be.

Genres fictionhumorclassicscomedybritish literatureaudiobookliterature20th centuryhistoricalromance

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1970

This edition

Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Published: November 1, 1997 by Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140085075
ASIN: 0140085076
Language: English

Characters More characters

Homer Plye

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Duane Sottlemeyer

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Bernadette Clayborne

Bernadette "Barney" Clayborne, relict of the late pet of the sporting set Wally Clayborne, sister of Homer Pyle in The Girl in Blue. A large, cheerful, friendly woman given to shoplifting. more...
Gerald Godfrey Francis West

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Willougby Scrope

Willoughby or Bill Scrope, younger brother of Crispin and Jerry Wests uncle and trustee in The Girl in Blue. A large, prosperous-looking man, senior partner of Scrope, Ashby, more...
Crispin Scrope

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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).