Aunts Aren't Gentlemen is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 17, 1974 by Barrie & Jenkins, London, and in the United States under the title The Cat-nappers on April 14, 1975 by Simon & Schuster, New York. It was the last novel to feature some of Wodehouse's best known characters, Bertie Wooster and his resourceful valet Jeeves, and the last novel fully completed by Wodehouse before his death.
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Aunts Aren't Gentlemen is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 17, 1974 by Barrie & Jenkins, London, and in the United States under the title The Cat-nappers on April 14, 1975 by Simon & Schuster, New York. It was the last novel to feature some of Wodehouse's best known characters, Bertie Wooster and his resourceful valet Jeeves, and the last novel fully completed by Wodehouse before his death.
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen is another of the Bertie-Jeeves exploits in which Aunt Dahlia starts horsing around and enmeshes, amongst others, Bertie, Vanessa Cook, Orlo Porter, Major Brabazon-Plank (now Major Plank), Potato Chip the horse, and The Cat That Kept Popping Up.
The story begins with Bertie finding himself with pink spots about the thorax, so he flies off to E. Jimpson Murgatroyd (the sombre bird of Harley Street who despotted Tipton Plimsoll in Full Moon). After getting mixed with Orlo Porter fleeing from a policeman and a crowd, Bertie is...
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