1. Jeeves (A), seeing off Bertie Wooster and Nobby Hopwood [Joy in the Morning, ch. 5].

2. Vosper (B), butler to Bradbury Fisher (C) ["Keeping in with Vosper", in The Heart of a Goof].

3. Bugs Butler (E), viewed with concern by Lester Burrows (D) [The Adventures of Sally, ch. 13].

4. Percy, Lord Belpher (F), seen through the eyes of his aunt, Lady Caroline Byng (G) [A Damsel in Distress, ch. 6].

Round 192 - 10 June 2004

1. Vera Upshaw (B), author of "Daffodil Days", etc., meeting Homer (!) Pyle (A) [The Girl in Blue, ch. 5].

2. Percy Wilbraham Marsh, Lord Belpher [A Damsel in Distress, ch. 3].

3. Ronnie Fish (C), running amok at Mario’s [Summer Lightning, ch. 4].

4. Joss Weatherby (F), valet to Mr Steptoe (G), before being sacked by Mrs Steptoe (E) and confined to the coal cellar by the butler Chibnall (D) [Quick Service, ch. 19].

Round 193 - 18 June 2004

1. This was Jane Opal describing how her father, Senator Ambrose Opal, reacted to being served oatmeal for breakfast by his newly hired valet, actually Jane's fiancé Blair Eggleston, (A), in disguise. From Chapter Seven of Hot Water.

2. Lord Wivelscombe, (C), took what he considered the appropriate steps after discovering his daughter Geraldine, (D), locked in a close embrace with his private secretary Adolphus "Stiffy" Stiffham, (B), in the short story "The Luck of the Stiffhams" from Young Men in Spats.

3. In Chapter Fifteen of Spring Fever Stanwood Cobbold, (E), Mycroft Cardinal, (F), and Lady Teresa Cobbold, (G), used the threat of violence to convince Stanwood's valet Augustus Robb, (H), to join them in their safe-cracking expedition planned for that evening. In Chapter Seventeen, annoyed by a certain absence of discretion in Robb's conversation (he described Lady Teresa as a "cuddly little piece of fluff"), Mike let fly with his size eleven boot at the spot indicated.

4. The Duke of Dunstable, (J), annoyed by the night-time serenading of his private secretary Rupert Baxter, (I), said it with eggs in Chapter
Twelve of Uncle Fred in the Springtime and, although he put his shoulder out with the effort, hit the bulls-eye (or, rather, the secretary's
cheek), winning the unstinting praise of Lord Ickenham in the bargain.

Round 194 - 26 June 2004

1. Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, the fifth Earl of Ickenham, who was disguised as Sir Roderick Glossop at the time, recalled the circumstances that caused A, the young policeman Thomas Lipton, to decide to leave the Force and embark on a new career in the grocery industry. (Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Chapter Eight)

2. D, Police Constable Popjoy, Lower-Smattering-on-the-Wissel's vigilant guardian of the law, was attempting to apprehend a Negroid burglar (actually Reginald Mulliner, C, still in his makeup after a boffo turn singing Ol' Man River at the village concert) when he was assaulted by a passing Sputnik. The alternative explanation, that he was felled by a spanner wielded by B, Amanda Biffen, seems a trifle far-fetched. The episode is described in the Mulliner story "Big Business" in the book A Few Quick Ones. However the story's first appearance was in a 1952 magazine, so I think it is a fairly safe guess that the Sputnik gag was a last-minute addition before the 1959 publication of A Few Quick Ones.

3. The attempt by (F), plainclothes officer Wilfred "Cheeser" Chisholm, to pinch his old school-mate Monty Bodkin, (E), and (G), Alexandra "Sandy" Miller, during a police raid on the Happy Prawn night club was foiled by Miss Miller's spirited and resourceful use of a handy ashcan. (Chapter Seven of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin or, as it is known in the US, The Plot that Thickened)

4. 500,000 francs have gone missing and Roville-sur-Mer police Commissaire Pierre Alexandre Boissonade, (H), was on the case. But, being a French police detective, he was naturally on the wrong track and about to arrest an innocent person. Fortunately, New York publisher J Russell Clutterbuck, (I), was able to prevent a gross miscarriage of justice by tactfully dropping a Mickey Finn in the Commissaire's champagne glass in Chapter 11 of French Leave.

Round 195 - 5 July 2004

1. In Chapter 14 of Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (US title Bertie Wooster Sees It Through) after being discovered in a compromising position in Florence Craye's bed-room in the small hours, the narrator, Bertie Wooster, talked his way out of a threatening encounter with Lady Florence's former fiancé Stilton Cheesewright, (A), by reminding the latter that his chances of cashing in to the tune of fifty-six pounds, ten shillings on the Wooster ticket in the Drones Club Darts tournament would go down the drain if he, Wooster, was prevented by an assortment of broken bones and black eyes from throwing an accurate dart.

2. After accidentally becoming engaged to (C), Agnes Flack, Smallwood Bessemer, (D), sought out Miss Flack's former fiancé, insurance executive Sidney McMurdo, (B), and took out an all-accident insurance policy, thus effectively spiking Sidney's guns when he learned of the engagement. From the short story "Tangled Hearts", which is collected in The Golf Omnibus.

3. Hermione Bostock, (F), saved the life of her publisher Otis Painter, (E), with a timely plea to her jealous cousin Bill Oakshott, (G), in Chapter 14 of Uncle Dynamite.

4. Eustace Mulliner, (H), stood accused of torturing the canary William, giving away the Peke Reginald and throwing cucumber sandwiches, sultana cakes, muffins and lumps of sugar at the cat Francis. Eustace's Aunt Georgiana, (J), who owned Francis, and the beautiful Marcella Tyrrwhitt, the owner of William and former owner of Reginald, were content to leave the necessary retribution in the capable hands of (I), Orlando Wotherspoon, the perpetual vice-president of Our Dumb Chums' League, when Eustace adroitly exited the room via the window and caught the next train for Switzerland. From the short story "Open House", which was collected in Mulliner Nights.

Round 196 - 13 July 2004

1. After being instructed by his Aunt Agatha to knock off smoking in order to impress visiting cabinet minister AB Filmer, (B), Bertie Wooster was in no mood to listen to well meant anti-smoking propaganda from Jeeves, (A). From "Jeeves and the Impending Doom", which first appeared in book form in Very Good, Jeeves.

2. In the short story "The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh", which was collected in The Heart of a Goof, the title character, (C), was prepared to risk the wrath of his mother, (D), and her inevitable anti-smoking lecture in the vain hope that a puff or two on his pipe during a round of golf would knock a few strokes off his score.

3. A pipe-smoking Tankard of Ale, (G), routed his adversary, a Lemon Squash, (F), in a debate on the merits of smoking refereed by Mr Mulliner, (E), in the Angler's Rest, shortly before the Sage of the Bar-Parlour related the adventure of his nephew Ignatius in the story titled "The Man Who Gave Up Smoking", which was first collected in Mr Mulliner Speaking.

4. Despite being the target of an attempted kidnapping, the chain-smoking Little Nugget, (H), who answered to the name Ogden Ford, was the only calm person on the grounds of the Sanstead House prep school. Headmaster Arnold Abney, (I), was particularly emotional and greatly addicted to distributing "bad marks" to the student body when stressed. From Part Two, Chapter Four of the novel The Little Nugget. An almost identical passage is found in Chapter Four of the shorter serial/novella The Eighteen-Carat Kid.

Round 197 - 21 July 2004

1. The sharpshooting catapultist is Lord Ickenham, and his victim is Sir Raymond (Beefy) Bastable. (Cocktail Time, Chapter 2)

2. The narrator is Reggie Havershot, though technically the orange-launching arm belongs to Joey Cooley, whose body Reggie is inhabiting. (Laughing Gas, Chapter 16)

3. Algernon Martyn is the man who longs to get to Ashby Hall and touch J Wendell Stickney. (Company for Henry, US title The Purloined Paperweight, Chapter 9)

4. The scene is the park of Blandings Castle, site of the Blandings Parva School Treat, where Lord Emsworth, with no one to rid him of the turbulent school children, finds himself longing for the days of King Herod. ("Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend," Blandings Castle)

Round 198 - 29 July 2004

1. A is George Bevan, dining at Belpher Castle. (A Damsel in Distress, Chapter 23)

2. Lord Hoddesdon (E), assigned to take Ann Moon to lunch, is unhappy with the frugality of his sister, Lady Vera Mace. (Big Money, Chapter 3)

3. F is Algy Martyn. (Company for Henry, US title The Purloined Paperweight, Chapter 7; this passage is the prequel to one in the previous week's quiz)

4. Mr. Trout (J) is attempting to save Joe Pickering (L) from the fate worse than death – matrimony. (Bachelors Anonymous, Chapter 9)

Extra credit: The prodigal is Felicia (Flick) Sheridan. (Bill the Conqueror, Chapter 17)

Round 199 - 10 August 2004

1. Oofy Prosser is about to Freddie Widgeon, hoping to add another . ("The Fat of the Land", A Few Quick Ones)

2. Jeff Miller has purchased a Duff and Trotter pork pie for Lionel Green. (Money in the Bank, Chapter 22)

3. Berry Conway has done his good deed for the day by providing employment for Lady Vera Mace and a commission for his friend Lord Biskerton. (Big Money, Chapter 1)

4. The Boy Scout is young blighted Edwin; his sister is Lady Florence Craye, and his victim Bertie Wooster. (Joy in the Morning, Chapter 10)

Extra Credit: The man who (according to an unimpeachable source – himself) once killed three sharks with a Boy Scout pocket-knife (and on another occasion "brought down two lions with one shot") is Desmond Franklyn. ("The Story of William", Meet Mr Mulliner)

Round 200 - 18 August 2004

1. The blackmailer, and soon-to-be-blackmailee, is LP Runkle. (Much Obliged, Jeeves, Chapter 16)

2. The butler, Spink, did it, attempting to blackmail Mycroft Cardinal. (Spring Fever, Chapter 11)

3. Lavender Briggs is trying to blackmail the Rev Cuthbert Bailey (alias Cuthbert Meriwether) into stealing Empress of Blandings. The blackmailing bug seems to be contagious; soon afterwards the Duke of Dunstable tries to blackmail Lord Emsworth, only to be blackmailed himself by Lord Ickenham. (Service with a Smile, Chapter 5)

4. The aspiring blackmailer is Gordon (Oily) Carlisle, who hopes to put the bite on Senator Opal, who is already being blackmailed (or extorted) by Julia Gedge. (Hot Water, Chapter 11)