Captain Biggar, big-game hunter and all around tough guy, should make short work of those two bookies who absconded with his winnings after a freak double made him a fortune. But "Honest Patch Perkins" and his clerk are not bookies after all; they are the impoverished Bill Belfry, Ninth Earl of Rowcester, and his temporary butler Jeeves. While Bertie Wooster is away at a special school teaching the aristocracy to fend for itself "in case the social revolution sets in with even greater severity," his ever-faithful servant Jeeves proves just as resourceful without his young master, and his brilliant brainwork may yet square the circle for all concerned. Best known as the creator of Jeeves (the impossibly wise, supremely well-mannered gentleman's gentleman) and Wooster (his unflaggingly affable but bumbling employer), P.G. Wodehouse invokes the very British spirit of a bygone era in gentle, hilarious satire that, as Evelyn Waugh puts it, "satisfies the most sophisticated taste and the simplest."