The Girl in Blue

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

At the heart of The Girl in Blue (1970) is a miniature portrait attributed to Gainsborough, which vanishes from Mellingham Hall, the crumbling home of Crispin Scrope. Jerry West, a young cartoonist, has fallen for a girl he met on a bus and gets swept into the search for the missing picture. Also in the hunt are an American lawyer, a light-fingered aunt and a butler with secrets of his own.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “P. G. Wodehouse. I’ve read almost everything he wrote. He once explained that there were two ways of writing novels. “One is mine, making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down deep into life and not caring a damn.” He did the former better than almost anyone.”