"The Smile that Wins" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in the United States in 1931 in American (magazine). In 1932, it appeared in the February issue of Strand Magazine. It also appears in the collections Mulliner Nights. A BBC TV adaptation of the story first aired on 31 October 1978 with John Alderton playing as Adrian Mulline.
Adrian Mulliner, a priv...
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"The Smile that Wins" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in the United States in 1931 in American (magazine). In 1932, it appeared in the February issue of Strand Magazine. It also appears in the collections Mulliner Nights. A BBC TV adaptation of the story first aired on 31 October 1978 with John Alderton playing as Adrian Mulline.
Adrian Mulliner, a private detective, falls in love with Lady Millicent Shipton-Bellinger, the daughter of the fifth Earl of Brangbolton who has a horror of detectives ever since Millecent's Uncle Joe's troubles in 1928. The father insists that Millicent must marry Sir Jasper Addleton, the financier. Heartbroken, Adrian has a bad attack of dyspepsia (he suffers from the disease and it was the melancholic dyspeptic look that first attracted Millicent) and a doctor advises him that the best cure for dyspepsia is to smile. Adrian, who hasn't smiled since he was twelve ...
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