Quick Service (Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE) Hardcover – International Edition, 15 April 2004

Buzzer J.P. Weatherby is fired from his post with J.B. Duff, of Duff and Trotter's Paramount Hams, and takes a post as valet to American Howard Steptoe, former boxer, former actor, and much put-upon as so many Wodehouse husbands are, and whose wife is trying to make him a gentleman. They live at Claines Hall with her sister-in-law Mrs Chavender, who was once engaged to Mr Duff. Also among the household is Sally, a poor relation who is engaged to Lord Holbeton, whose trustee is Mr Duff, and who wants his trustee to unbutton some of the needful so they can marry. Joss sees Sally and falls in love. Mr Duff wants the portrait Joss once painted of Mrs Chavender, and which now hangs in the breakfast room of Claines Hall, for a new poster campaign. Add to the mix a suspicious butler and the stage is set for a classic Wodehouse farce.This charming novel, from 1940, contains all the classic Wodehouse elements: a country house, a hen-pecked husband, a young couple in love but - in the girl's case - engaged to the wrong person, disguises and impersonations, people who urgently need money but can't ask for it outright, and a young Buzzer of a hero. Wodehouse was a master at inventing tangled plots then, when all seems lost, untangling them so that everyone gets their just deserts, and "Quick Service" is one of his finest achievements. A witty and sunny novel set in a serpentless Eden.

Item arrived very quickly and in perfect condition and of course the book is perfect too!

Excellent to find this in hardback. Gift for my Dad who reads them many times over, so hardback enables him to do this without it falling to pieces.

Come on! P.G.Wodehouse - what is not to like ? Weird and whacky characters and their daft entanglements. It is a cheerful read and makes me smile.

It's a second hand book containing articles by the novelist, P G Wodehouse, and proved to be in the sort of condition one might expect having been described by the seller as second hand.

Found it amusing. The font used in Everyman's Library editions is a little small for my, very poor, eyes.

It's always a joy to enter the wonderful world of Wodehouse. These might not be the characters we know but the situations they find themselves in are pure Wodehouse and the charm of the world of Wodehouse shines through.It's worth noting for the collector that the 'Collectors Wodehouse' is the American version of the UK's 'Everyman Wodehouse' series and so they sit comfortably on the book shelf together

I'm working my way around to getting every Wodehouse in the series, replacing tatty old paperbacks with hardbacks (and filling in the blanks in my collection).The books are a fantastic read, and this edition will please every Wodehouse fan.