Leave It To Psmith has come out of the hat. This is the second novel in the much-loved Blandings Castle saga, and the fourth and last featuring Psmith (with a silent 'P'). Wodehouse later explained that he left the character of Psmith behind because he couldn't think of anything else for him to do. Part of the reason may be that he chucked everything at him when he visited Blandings. This book boasts a plot complicated and farcical even by Wodehouse's standards. We can expect dark conspiracies, missing items, frantic attempts to put those items in the right hands, trouble with flowerpots, rages from Blandings' head gardener Angus McAllister, absent-mindedness from Lord Emsworth and best of all a visit from literary types to the castle. One can only expect that these latter will be ridiculous...
And if that hasn't whetted your appetite enough, here's the first sentence:
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