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The Girl in Blue (Paperback)

by P.G. Wodehouse (Author)
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  • 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: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 374,592 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Not being a dentist turns out to be a stroke of good luck for Jerry. If he were, he would not have been summoned to sit on the jury with the delightful Jane, with whom he falls instantly in love. Only then does it suddeny dawn on him that he is already engaged to Vera Upshaw.


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A P.G. Wodehouse novel

Young Jerry West has a few problems. His uncle Crispin is broke and employs a butler who isn’t all he seems. His other uncle Willoughby is rich but won’t hand over any of his inheritance. And to cap it all, although already engaged, Jerry has just fallen in love with the wonderful Jane Hunnicutt, whom he’s just met on jury service. But she’s an heiress, and that’s a problem too – because even if he can extricate himself from his grasping fiancée Jerry can’t be a gold-digger.

Enter The Girl in Blue – a Gainsborough miniature which someone has stolen from Uncle Willoughby. Jerry sets out on a mission to find her – and somehow hilariously in the process everything comes right. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wodehouse in the Pink., 4 Jul 2008
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.
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not a typical Wodehouse, but very good all the same, 22 May 2001
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Most people, on reading this book, will be suprised to discover that "the girl in blue" is not the love interest of the story. She (the title, not the love interest) is a Gainsborough minature. P.G.W's highly enjoyable novel deals with fine art, kleptomania, private detectives, and the running costs of country houses. Sounds interesting? Good. Read it.
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