Lord Emsworth and Others

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Lord Emsworth and Others is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 19, 1937 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The United States equivalent was published on June 25, 1937 by Doubleday Doran, New York, under the title Crime Wave at Blandings. Penguin Books published an edition in 1966. The stories had all previously appeared in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic.

As well as the Blandings Castle-set titular story, it also contains stories about Ukridge, Mr Mulliner, and the Oldest Member.

Contents 1 Contents 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

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• "The Crime Wave at Blandings" (Blandings Castle)
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, October 10 & 17 1936
  • UK: Strand, January 1937
• "Buried Treasure" (Mr Mulliner)
  • UK: Strand, September 1936
  • US: This Week, September 27, 1936 (as "Hidden Treasure")
• "The Letter of the Law" (Oldest Member)
  • US: Redbook, February 1936
  • UK: Strand, April 1936
• "Farewell to Legs" (Oldest Member)
  • US: This Week, July 14, 1935
  • UK: Strand, May 1936
• "There's Always Golf" (Oldest Member)
  • UK: Strand, March 1936
  • US: Redbook, April 1936 (as "Not Out of Distance")
• "The Masked Troubadour" (Freddie Widgeon)
  • US: Saturday Evening Post, November 28, 1936 (as "Reggie and the Greasy Bird", with different setting & characters)
  • UK: Strand, December 1936
• "Ukridge and the Home from Home" (Ukridge)
  • US: Cosmopolitan, February 1931
  • UK: Strand, June 1931
• "The Come-back of Battling Billson" (Ukridge)
  • US: Cosmopolitan, June 1931
  • UK: Strand, July 1931
• "The Level Business Head" (Ukridge)
  • US: Liberty February 1926
  • UK: Strand, May 1926

The U.S. version, Crime Wave at Blandings, was missing the three Ukridge stories (which appeared in the U.S. edition of Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets (1940) and the three Oldest Member stories (which appeared in the U.S. edition of Young Men in Spats (1936). In their place were "Tried in the Furnace" (from the UK edition of Young Men in Spats), and "All's Well With Bingo" and "Romance at Droitgate Spa" (both in the UK Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets), as well as the novella The Medicine Girl, published separately in the UK as Doctor Sally, (1932).

[edit] References

• Midkiff, Neil. The Wodehouse short stories. "Neil Midkiff's P. G. Wodehouse pages". Retrieved on April 24, 2006.

[edit] See also

• Categorised list of Wodehouse's short stories

[edit] External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters and publication dates
• Fantastic Fiction's page, with details of published editions, photos of book covers and links to used copies
• An alphabetical list of Wodehouse's shorts, with details of first publication and appearances in collections