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The Old Reliable (1992)

by P.G. Wodehouse(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0099999803 (ISBN13: 9780099999805)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Vintage

review 1: It's nice to know that a Wodehouse book need not contain a Bertie, a Baxter, an Emsworth, or a perfunctory P to be uproarious. This happens to include a woman named Bill, a former queen of the silent screen, and Phipps, who I have on good authority is not the world's only safe-cracking butler (in retrospect, why shouldn't there be dozens of safe-cracking butlers? provided that they have better morals than Phipps does). "'Ah, Hollywood, Hollywood,' said Bill. 'Home of mean glories and spangled wretchedness, where the deathless fire burns for the outspread wings of the guileless moth, whose streets are bathed in the shamed tears of betrayed maidens.'" Or something along those lines.
review 2: Wilhelmina ‘Bill’ Shannon ex staff writer of Ikey Llewellyn’s fil... morem company Superba-Llewellyn is ghost writing her sister Adela’s memoirs. Adela Shannon was a star of the silver screen who is living in what was the Hollywood home of torrid film star Carmen Flore, who was known to have kept a diary. Smedley Cork, whom Bill is devoted to, and the ex safe cracker butler, Phipps, are both searching for this diary conscious of the money it could fetch from a gossip magazine.Also on the premises are Adela Shannon’s niece Kay and her two suitors, Jack Davenport, whom Kay loves but Adela does not, and Lord Topham, whom Adela loves but Kay does not.I think we all know how it’s going to end up but as ever with Wodehouse the chase is better than the kill. If only every thing in life was as reliable as a Wodehouse plot conclusion. less

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