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A review by amyl88
Wodehouse on Crime by P.G. Wodehouse
4.0
I'm on a Wodehouse mission. I am now looking for dead tree copies. I'm also trying to read his whole catalog. I picked this up at Half Price books on my birthday, the day Kobe Bryant died, before all this virus crap started. While I had read a couple of these stories before, most were new to me. This is a collection of stories that are focused on crimes in some way.
Mostly hilarious. Most of his main characters are moronic, idle boys with money (but never enough) and schemes doomed to failure. I think my favorite story in this one is Aunt Agatha Takes the Count, even though the volume doesn't include the follow-up tale that tells what happens when the scam artists come back to collect their... well, spoilers, sweetie... Wodehouse also has such a way with dialogue. I can actually hear it in my mind and picture the scenes. Someone needs to make Wodehouse movies ASAP! (Although we did watch a couple of episodes of the BBC show Blandings from 2013, and MEH! Something didn't quite translate. Even Jennifer Saunders couldn't save it! I'm not sure why, but it just wasn't as great as it should have been. Maybe we should have given it another episode or two. And I can't find the Fry/Laurie Jeeves series on DVD)
Mostly hilarious. Most of his main characters are moronic, idle boys with money (but never enough) and schemes doomed to failure. I think my favorite story in this one is Aunt Agatha Takes the Count, even though the volume doesn't include the follow-up tale that tells what happens when the scam artists come back to collect their... well, spoilers, sweetie... Wodehouse also has such a way with dialogue. I can actually hear it in my mind and picture the scenes. Someone needs to make Wodehouse movies ASAP! (Although we did watch a couple of episodes of the BBC show Blandings from 2013, and MEH! Something didn't quite translate. Even Jennifer Saunders couldn't save it! I'm not sure why, but it just wasn't as great as it should have been. Maybe we should have given it another episode or two. And I can't find the Fry/Laurie Jeeves series on DVD)