Highlights: The cat fight, perhaps the best single scene Wodehouse has ever written. The Efficient Baxter’s three-way midnight stair tumble, absolutely exquisite and perhaps tied with the cat fight. And Joan, a self-possessed, adventurous, thoroughly satisfying female lead.

This book is so completely unlike dear Bertie Wooster and his first-person jumbly shenanigans. In contrast the tone is downright serious. It is possibly my favorite Wodehouse, and certainly an unmixed pleasure.