The Man with Two Left Feet - Softcover

Wodehouse, P G; P G Wodehouse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421896680 ISBN 13: 9781421896687

Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

There's a divinity that shapes our ends. Consider the case of Henry Pifield Rice, detective. I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment. If I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require him to solve mysteries which had baffled the police. He had never measured a footprint in his life, and what he did not know about bloodstains would have filled a library. The sort of job they gave Henry was to stand outside a restaurant in the rain, and note what time someone inside left it. In short, it is not 'Pifield Rice, Investigator. No. 1.-The Adventure of the Maharajah's Ruby' that I submit to your notice, but the unsensational doings of a quite commonplace young man, variously known to his comrades at the Bureau as 'Fathead', 'That blighter what's-his-name', and 'Here, you!'

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Review

Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever. Douglas Adams
Wodehouse s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. Evelyn Waugh
Praise for the Overlook Wodehouse Collectors' Series
Overlook Press is publishing a set of clothbound collector s editions of the master s work. They re beautiful books, much welcome. "Bookforum"

?Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever. Douglas Adams

?Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. Evelyn Waugh

Praise for the Overlook Wodehouse Collectors' Series
?Overlook Press is publishing a set of clothbound collector's editions of the master's work. They?re beautiful books, much welcome.? ?"Bookforum"

Book Description

A collection of Wodehouse's earliest fiction includes the first appearance of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.
The begininning of it all... a must have for collectionists,

Edition details

• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1421896680
• ISBN 13: 9781421896687
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: 1st World Library