WODEHOUSE, P.G.

[192] pp.

Barrie & Jenkins

1972

8″ x 5 1/4″

Jacket illustration by Osbert Lancaster

Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 12 October 1972 by Barrie & Jenkins, and in the United States on 6 August 1973 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. under the title The Plot That Thickened. Although written towards the end of the Wodehouse’s life, and published 37 years after The Luck of the Bodkins (1935), the events of the book follow on directly from those recounted in the earlier novel.

Monty Bodkin returns from Hollywood, with his romantic situation, previously recounted in Heavy Weather (1933) and The Luck of the Bodkins (1935), still as complicated as ever. Other recurring Wodehouse characters also appear, including the film studio president Ivor Llewellyn, the crook Alexander “Chimp” Twist, and Chimp’s rivals Soapy and Dolly Molloy. Llewellyn was to return a year later in Bachelors Anonymous (1973)