- Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (28 May 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140085076
- ISBN-13: 978-0140085075
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 986,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse has seen 89 summers but the baronets, butlers, blondes and bluestockings march on and the Powers are still operative again when a Gainsborough painting is pinched. "You mean," gasps one character, "that everything depends on Crispin pushing this policeman in a brook?" It does, but Crispin doesn't, and the inmates and vacationers in Crispin's family manor - a nice couple, hearty matron, nasty butler, gold-digging poetess, wealthy barrister, etc., all contribute to the sempiternal small pleasures. (Kirkus Reviews)
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This charming novel is one of Wodehouse's best late works.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
By 1970 at the age of eighty eight I don't think anyone would be surprised that Wodehouse was not the writer he had been and indeed two of his three last novels `Company for Henry' and `Do Butlers Burgle Banks?' although by no means stinkers had been a blot on the old escutcheon but returning to Blandings with `A Pelican at Blandings' had reengaged his muse and `The Girl in Blue' is one of his greatest works.
`The Girl in Blue' is a Gainsborough miniature which has gone missing and the suspicion is that it has been stolen from Willoughby Scrope and transported to Mellingham hall, seat of his brother Crispin Scrope. Their nephew, Jerry, is charged with recovering the picture and though he doesn't find it he finds love and a Broker's man posing as a butler. All would be well in Jerry's world except that he is already engaged to Vera Upshaw whom greatly admires his trust fund enormously and Wodehouse must disentangle him before he can join his soul mate in the best of all possible worlds.
A Wodehouse original novel which despite a casual reference to Johnny Halliday from `A Pelican at Blandings' doesn't rely on any of the masters stock characters and even if it does dip into his stock of plot mechanisms it does leave us in the pink rather than the blue.
`The Girl in Blue' is a Gainsborough miniature which has gone missing and the suspicion is that it has been stolen from Willoughby Scrope and transported to Mellingham hall, seat of his brother Crispin Scrope. Their nephew, Jerry, is charged with recovering the picture and though he doesn't find it he finds love and a Broker's man posing as a butler. All would be well in Jerry's world except that he is already engaged to Vera Upshaw whom greatly admires his trust fund enormously and Wodehouse must disentangle him before he can join his soul mate in the best of all possible worlds.
A Wodehouse original novel which despite a casual reference to Johnny Halliday from `A Pelican at Blandings' doesn't rely on any of the masters stock characters and even if it does dip into his stock of plot mechanisms it does leave us in the pink rather than the blue.
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Format:Paperback
It's quite remarkable that nearly 70 years after his first book was published, and a year shy of 90, Wodehouse was still able to turn out such a warm and delightful tale. The tangled plot revolves around the theft of a Gainsborough miniature from a wealthy solicitor, and pulls together a wonderful crowd of characters from the upper echelons of Brtish and American society. Suspicions of who the thief is lead to different but linked parties attempting its recovery, all while staying in the country pile of the solictor's brother. Chaos is guaranteed, but out of it may come love and happiness for all concerned. Light, airy and uplifting!
Format:Hardcover
Anyone who reads a lot of Wodehouse learns quite quickly that you need to give yourself breaks. If you read two or three in a row, as I have done a few times, you find that characters begin to blur and plot structures become so familiar you find yourself predicting the next unlikely scrape that will befall our hapless characters. If, however, you read plenty of other authors and genres and then return to PG for some light entertainment you simply cannot go wrong. 'The Girl in Blue' is one of his stand-alone books, not connected with any other work but nevertheless is of course populated with many familiar Wodehouseian characters. Our happily inadequate hero Jerry must track down the despicable individual who has stolen a Gainsborough miniature, the `girl in blue' of the title, from his Uncle. As usual confusion and misunderstanding abound and of course Jerry has problems of his own. Having fallen in love at first sight whilst serving as a juror he must disengage himself from his shallow betrothed and her harridan of a mother before his love can be his.
Not one of the best but worth reading as always, just don't read too many back to back...
Not one of the best but worth reading as always, just don't read too many back to back...
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Disappointing
Perhaps I have read too many Wodehouses recently but I found this a little disappointing. This is a very late one in Wodehouse's career and I really felt as if the magic had... Read more
Published on 18 May 2010 by Aquinas
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It seems harsh awarding four stars for what is, after all, a thoroughly enjoyable novel. It is very good but perhaps the loss of a star is due to the fact that it cannot be placed... Read more
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Not a typical Wodehouse, but very good all the same
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