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Leave It to Psmith

P. G. Wodehouse · 1923 CE · Novel · English · Modernist

Bored of the fish business, Psmith advertises his willingness to undertake anything short of murder, and is shortly at Blandings Castle impersonating a Canadian poet, alongside several other guests with designs on a visiting diamond necklace. Lord Emsworth wants only to be left with his flowers, while his efficient secretary suspects everybody of everything. The book that fixed Blandings as the second of the two great comic estates.

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