Plum Pie

First edition

Plum Pie is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 22, 1966 by Barrie & Jenkins (under the Herbert Jenkins imprint), and in the United States on December 1, 1967 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.^[1]

All stories except one belong to a large bag of P. G. Wodehouse regular series: one Jeeves, one golf story, one Blandings, one Ukridge, two Drones Club member Bingo Little, one Mr Mulliner, and one longer Freddie Threepwood novella.

Contents

1. "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird" (Jeeves)
2. "Sleepy Time" (golf story)
3. "Sticky Wicket at Blandings" (Blandings Castle)
4. "Ukridge Starts a Bank Account" (Ukridge)
5. "Bingo Bans the Bomb" (Drone Bingo Little with Freddie Widgeon)
6. "Stylish Stouts" (Drone Bingo Little)
7. "George and Alfred" (Mr Mulliner)
8. "A Good Cigar Is a Smoke"
9. "Life with Freddie" (Drone Freddie Threepwood novella)

Most of the stories had previously appeared in Argosy in the UK, and in Playboy or The Saturday Evening Post in the U.S.; the UK version included some extra notes and interspersions between the stories.

See also

• List of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, categorised by series

References and sources

References

Sources

• Midkiff, Neil. "The Wodehouse short stories". P. G. Wodehouse pages. Retrieved 2007-07-22. 

External links

• The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with lists of characters