Something Fishy

Something Fishy

"Something Fishy" is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on January 18 1957 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on January 28 1957 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title "The Butler Did It".

The plot concerns a tontine formed by a group of wealthy men, and a butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of the scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge.

It features Percy Pilbeam, the unscrupulous head of the Argus Detective Agency, who first appeared in "Bill the Conqueror" (1924) and was in several other Wodehouse books, including a visit to Blandings Castle in "Summer Lightning" (1929).

External links

* [http://wodehouse.ru/79.htm The Russian Wodehouse Society's page] , with a list of characters


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