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Published in 1930.
Jeeves and the Impending Doom Aunt Agatha has invited Bertie to her country
house where he meets Mr Filmer, a very strict and important fellow. Bingo
Little is there too, tutoring Agatha's son Thomas. This job is very important
for Bingo who gambled and lost all the money his wife left him before
travelling, and he asks Bertie to prevent Thomas to harm Filmer. But Thomas
strands Filmer on an island during a rain shower, and Bertie makes a fool of
himself trying to save him. They are eventually saved by Jeeves who claims
this was all Bertie's fault, thus saving Bingo's position. Jeeves had learned
that Agatha wanted to convince Filmer to take Bertie as his personal
secretary, which saves Bertie the trouble of having to work.
The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy Sippy is editor of The Mayfair
Gazette, and in love with Gwendolen Moon who writes poems for the paper. But
he's too shy to aks her, and also he's too intimidated to refuse boring
articles from his former headmaster. Bertie's idea is to get the headmaster
covered in flour in Sippy's office to make him laugh at his Nemesis, which in
turn would give him courage to ask Gwendolen, but Jeeves quietly implements
his own idea. He invites Sippy and Gwendolen at Bertie's place and smacks
Sippy on the head just before Gwendolen arrives. Because of the emotion, they
then declare their mutual love, which gives Sippy the energy to reject the
headmaster's last paper.
Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit Bertie is sent for Christmas by Aunt Agatha
to Lady Wickham's, where Sir Roderick and Tuppy Glossop are also staying.
Aunt Agatha hopes to get Sir Roderick to reconsider his diagnostic of lunacy
on Bertie. Bertie wants to get back at Tuppy for a prank the latter played on him
recently. On Roberta's idea, Layd Wickham's daughter's with whom Bertie is in
love, Bertie is to enter Tuppy's room by night and puncture his hot water
bottle. But Tuppy and his uncle Roderick had swapped rooms and Bertie is
caught by the loony doctor who goes to Bertie's room for the rest of the
night. But Roberta had given the same idea to Tuppy, who punctures his uncle's
bottle thinking it was Bertie's. Jeeves had also learned that Agatha was
hoping Sir Roderick would reconsider his opinion on Bertie and that he could
get engaged to Honoria Glossop, Sir Roderick's daughter.
Jeeves and the Song of Songs Tuppy, more or less engaged to Bertie's cousin
Angela, is in love with an opera singer, Cora Bellinger. To impress her, he
wants to sing “Sonny Boy” at a concert where she is also to sing. But
Angela's mother, Aunt Dahlia, wants the scheme to fail. Jeeves then induces
Bertie to sing “Sonny Boy” before Tuppy. Since other people had already sung
the same song before, the audience is pretty annoyed and Tuppy is thrown
vegetables at. Jeeves then tells Cora Bellinger, who arrived late, that Tuppy
wants her to sing the same song as well, and she is booed as well, ending
their relationship.
Episode of the Dog McIntosh Aunt Agatha left her dog McIntosh with Bertie
while she was away. Roberta Wickham then pops in and invites at Bertie's place
an american theatre producer and his son (who actually decides which plays are
good) because she wants to sell him a play by her mother. While Bertie is away
(he had met the son in New York and doesn't want to see him again), Roberta
gives McIntosh to the son to convince him to accept the play. Bertie manages
to get the dog back but he is noticed, and when the the producer comes to his
flat to reclaim the dog, Jeeves gives him another specimen of the same breed.
The Spot of Art Bertie is in love with Gwladis Pendlebury, a painter who
had drawn Bertie's portrait. When she runs over Pim, her other admirer and
breaks his leg, the latter ends up in Bertie's guest bedroom with doctor's
orders not to move. Pim telegraphs his sister who is to arrive soon, but in
order to sweeten her (Pim has claimed Bertie had run him over, since his
sister wouldn't approve of Gwlady if she knew she did it) he advises to send
her roses. But this makes her husband, an american soup magnate, very jealous,
and forces Bertie to flee to France for a couple of weeks. When he comes back,
his portrait is all over the city for a soup advertisement.
Jeeves and the Kid Clementina Bertie invites Roberta Wickham to dinner, but
she brings her 13-year old cousin Clementina with her, since it's her
birthday. She then leaves to Bertie the task to take her back to her shcool,
from which she's away without leave. She gives instructions to Bertie as how
to make a diversion that would allow Clementina to go in unnoticed. Bertie is
caught by a policeman, but Jeeves manages to let Clementina in through the
back door and to convince the headmistress (a friend of Aunt Agatha's met in
Bertie Changes his
mind)
that he was actually chasing a marauder.
The Love that Purifies Bertie is at Brinkley Court with his Aunt Dahlia.
Mr Ansruther, an elderly guest, is counting points to decide which one of the
two cousins Thomas (Agatha's son) or Bonzo (Dahlia's son) will behave the best
and win a five-pound prize. The Snettisham, the other guests, have taken bets
on Thomas and are trying to induce Bonzo to behave badly. Bertie is given the
task to subvert Thomas because Dahlia wants her son to win. The two kids are
refusing bribes because they are in love with Holywood actors and want to
behave best in their honor. Jeeves then invites Sippy's son, who admires
another actress and speaks ill of Thomas' love, inducing him in behaving
badly.
Jeeves and the Old School Chum Bingo's wife Rosie has invited Laura Pyke an
old school friend whom she admired very much. Laura is convincing Rosie that
they should stop eating like pigs and concentrate on vitamins and vegetables
amd so on. While at a picnic at a horse race ground, Jeeves removes the
sandwich basket from Bingo's car. Rosie and Laura jump luncheon without
trouble, and want to go home for tea. While Bertie is driving them back (Bingo
and Jeeves stay a bit longer) the car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and
hungry Rosie starts thinking that Laura's ideas are not that good). Bingo then
arrives and “repairs” the car (Jeeves had simply emptied the petrol tank)
and becomes Rosie's hero again.
Indian Summer of an Uncle Bertie's Uncle George wants to marry a waitress.
George already wanted to marry a barmaid years ago, and Agatha had managed to
buy her off. She wants Bertie to do the same with the young waitress. But the
waitress' aunt happens to be the old barmaid, and Jeeves invites them both at
Bertie's place, and they finally are engaged to get marrie. Since the woman is
of the same age as Agatha and she doesn't know who she is, she doesn't object.
The Ordeal of Young Tuppy Tuppy Glossop is again in love, this time with a
dog enthousiast. To impress her, he wants to play in the yearly rugby football
game where the village and the neighbour village players fight very hard. He
manages to survive the game, but discovers that the girl had been lured to
London by Jeeves who has made her belive she could there acquire the irish
water-spaniel she is longing for, and hadn't seen the game at all. Tuppy then
decides this kind of girl is not for him.