1. Sir Roderick Glossop (C) is disconcerted to learn from Jeeves that his prospective son-in-law, Bertie Wooster, keeps three cats in his bedroom and a fish under his bed. (“Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch,” Chapter 8 of The Inimitable Jeeves, US title Jeeves)

2. The former fish and tadpole (in an earlier life) are Jane Abbott and Joe Vanringham. (Summer Moonshine, Chapter 5)

3. The speakers are Bertie Wooster and Jeeves; the story is "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird" from Plum Pie.

4. F and G are Tuppy Glossop and Angela Travers. (Right Ho, Jeeves, US title Brinkley Manor, Chapter 8)

5. Bertie Wooster avoids a meeting with young Master Blumenfeld, who finds all people fish-faced. J stands for Jeeves, and K is Bobbie Wickham. ("The Episode of the Dog McIntosh," Very Good, Jeeves)

Extra Credit: Ukridge was the victim of a slap in the eye from a wet fish (possibly administered to the tune of Monty Python’s “Fish Slapping Dance”. Or possibly not.) ("Success Story," Nothing Serious)

Round 332 - 18 October 2007

1. A wasp brings about the meeting between Stanwood Cobbold and his distant relative Lord Shortlands. (Spring Fever, Chapter 5. The date in this passage, the twelfth of May, was a clue; see Round 313.)

2. Millicent Threepwood approves of a wasp's choice of Hugo Carmody as a victim. (Summer Lightning, US title Fish Preferred, Chapter 1)

3. Lord Plumpton complains to a friend about the wasps (actually projectiles fired with elastic). ("How's That, Umpire", Nothing Serious)

4. The speakers are Stinker Pyke (F), more formally known as Lord Tilbury, and the dastardly Duke of Dunstable, who is seeking to sell Empress of Blandings. (Service with a Smile, Chapter 8.3)

5. Joseph Poskitt (J) and Wadsworth Hemmingway (K) exchange unpleasantries in "The Letter of the Law" (Lord Emsworth and Others, also US edition of Young Men in Spats).

Extra Credit: Grace Forrester is the teaspoon-wielding slayer of wasps. ("A Woman Is Only a Woman", The Clicking of Cuthbert, US title Golf Without Tears. Teaspoons appear to be the weapon of choice; Rodney Spelvin squashes wasps with a chivalrous teaspoon, and Egbert Mulliner falls in love with Evangeline Pembury when he sees her squashing wasps with a t.)

Round 333 - 29 October 2007

1. Gussie Fink-Nottle discovers his small brown leather-covered notebook missing in Chapter 3 of The Code of the Woosters.

2. Adrian Mulliner (B), found Lady Millicent Shipton-Bellinger (A)'s missing Sealyham in "The Smile That Wins".

3. Mrs Pegler (C) is missing a large number of francs from her bag in Ch 9 of French Leave. D is Chester Todd.

4. In Chapter 10 of Ice in the Bedroom (The Ice in the Bedroom [US]) Mr Cornelius (F) and Dolly Molloy discuss the lucky pig the latter claimed to have left at Castlewood, now occupied by novelist Leila Yorke (K).

5. In Ch 10 of Cocktail Time Phoebe Wisdom (H) potters in and disrupts the accord reached among Lord ickenham, Oily Carlisle (G), and Sir Beefy Bastable (J).

Bonus A: Berkeley was alleged to have left behind a cigarette case at Easeby in the short story "Jeeves Takes Charge".

Bonus B: In "The Luck Stone" Jimmy Stewart and Tommy Armstrong are appalled to find the luck stone missing from the seemingly safe spot they chose for concealment.

Round 334 - 8 November 2007

1. X is Freddie Rooke, as always helping out Sir Derek Underhill (Y), this time in Chapter 8 of Jill the Reckless.

2. Osbert Mulliner (D) sympathised with ostriches and rhinoceroses who had had the misfortune to encounter Bashford Braddock (C). From "The Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner".

3. Sir Redvers Branksome (E) complaining to his daughter Muriel in "The Voice From the Past".

4. Bill Hollister (F) mistakes his future uncle-in-law Lord Uffenham (G) for an elephant in Something Fishy (Am. The Butler Did It), Chapter 16.

Bonus: Oofy Prosser, from "Oofy, Freddie and the Beef Trust" from A Few Quick Ones.

Round 335 - 19 November 2007

1. Shoeblossom (A) reads Punch (U) while resting and attended by Dr Oakes (B). From Mike at Wrykyn (aka Mike), ch. 17.

2. Wilhelmina (Bill) Shannon (C) is reminded of an article in the Yale Review (V) in The Old Reliable, ch. 4.

3. Adrian Peake has been stored in a cupboard belonging to Sir Buckstone Abbott (E) by Tubby Vanringham (D) and is sitting with the Illustrated Country Gentleman's Gazette (W) Summer Moonshine, ch. 24.

4. Publication X is The Licensed Victuallers' Gazette in the short story "Best Seller".

5. In Ch 1 of The Girl in Blue Homer Pyle (I) has seen Mellingham Hall (M) advertised in the New Yorker (Y).

6. Vera Pym is J and Sidney Chibnall K, publication Z is News of the World. From Quick Service, ch. 10.

Bonus A: J Hamilton Beamish of The Small Bachelor wrote such a piece for the Yale Review.

Bonus B: Egbert Mulliner's Aunt Serena, in "Another Christmas Carol".

Round 336 - 29 November 2007

1. The restaurant is Romano's. Bertie suggests laying bets on this view as a way to collect funds. From "Bertie Changes His Mind".

2. This scene meets one's eyes at Matching Scratchings in Oxfordshire. From "Goodbye to all Cats".

3. Conditions in the wilds of Long Island described in "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest".

4. One of the features on the grounds of Blandings Castle in Shropshire, the imitation Greek Temple was erected under the auspices of the seventh Earl of Emsworth in an era when that sort of thing was popular. From Chapter Three of Service With a Smile.

5. The bird is flying over The Lakeside Inn, five miles distant from the town of Skeewassett, Maine. From Chapter One of Barmy in Wonderland [Angel Cake, Am.]

Bonus 1: The common element is the word "pond". Professor Pond's Educated Sea-Lions co-star in "Where Passion Lurks", based on Wordsworth's "We Are Seven" (from the short story "The Passing of Ambrose"). Professor Pond earlier in his career, before taking up sea lions, had practised with poodles. The Mixer's grandfather sadly met this fate while employed as one of Professor Pond's Performing Poodles (recorded in "The Mixer - I - He Meets a Shy Gentleman"). The vicar quoted is the Rev. Alistair Pond-Pond (Money for Nothing, Chapter 5). The lake at Brinkley calls itself a lake but is more a sort of young pond. (Jeeves in the Offing/How Right You Are, Jeeves).

Bonus 2: Tuppy Glossop (Right Ho Jeeves, Ch 14), the woman on the train ("The Truth About George") and jellied eel assistant Wilberforce ("Uncle Fred Flits By") all resembled gaffed or leaping salmon, while the demeanor of the pale young curate of the eighties resembled that of a saintly but timid codfish ("Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo").

Round 337 - 9 December 2007

1. Monty Bodkin (A) and Lord Tilbury are discussing Gally's memoirs in the garden of the Emsworth Arms [Heavy Weather, ch. 8].

2. Monty Bodkin (this time cleverly disguised as B) is being lectured by Sandy Miller [Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin, ch. 1].

3. This is Bingo Little (D) appealing to his old school chum Bertie Wooster (C) ["Bingo and the Little Woman", from The Inimitable Jeeves].

4. The broker's man Chippendale has some good news for Jerry West (E) and Crispin Scrope (F) [The Girl in Blue, ch. 13].

Bonus 1: the cat Webster ["Cats Will Be Cats", from Mulliner Nights]. Thanks to Lynn for pointing out that some extremely inferior Penguin editions read "domestic" instead of "monastic" seclusion.

Bonus 2: Monty Bodkin again! This time in ch. 22 of The Luck of the Bodkins.

Round 338 - 20 December 2007

1. Prudence Garland (A) manages to draw the attention of Tipton Plimsoll (B) by mentioning Veronica Wedge (C) [Full Moon, ch. 6].

2. The speakers are Mitchell Holmes and the Oldest Member ["Ordeal by Golf", from The Clicking of Cuthbert].

3. Lord Emsworth informs his butler Beach (D) that he can see a cow through his new telescope ["The Custody of the Pumpkin", from Blandings Castle].

4. Lord Ickenham (F) has provided Sally Painter (E) with a suitcase full of clothes, F being Sir Aylmer Bostock [Uncle Dynamite, ch. 11].

Bonus: the lucky cows resided in Maine, according to the "Our Man in America" essays in Plum Pie. Thanks to Ian for specifying that the article was originally published in Punch magazine on March 22, 1961.

Round 339 - 28 December 2007

1. Eggy Mannering is reminding his cousin Reginald, third earl of Havershot (A), of a New Year's Eve celebration spent in the company of Stinker Pomeroy (B) at the Café de l'Europe (C) [Laughing Gas, ch. 3].

2. This is Bingo Little adding another item to the Pekes belonging to his beloved wife Rosie M Banks (D) ["Bingo and the Peke Crisis", from Eggs, Beans and Crumpets].

3. Lord Ickenham (E) is pleased with the rendering by his nephew Pongo Twistleton-Twistleton of "The Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond" [Uncle Fred in the Springtime, ch. 19].

4. Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps (F) had warned the narrator, Bertie Wooster, of the Vinton Street beak [Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, ch. 6].

5. Bernadette Clayborne is diverted by the sight of Crispin Scrope (G) [The Girl in Blue, ch. 13].

Round 340 - 6 January 2008

1. The mother-in-law-to-be is Lady Bassett speaking to Cyril Mulliner (A) ["Strychnine in the Soup", from Mulliner Nights].

2. The casting is as follows: Hamilton Beamish (B), officer Garroway (C), George Finch (D), Mr Waddington (E) and Mrs Waddington (F) [The Small Bachelor, ch. 18].

3. This is a cosy domestic chat between Bradbury Fisher (H) and his mother-in-law Mrs Maplebury (G) ["Keeping in with Vosper", from The Heart of a Goof].

4. Bingo Little fears a confrontation with his beloved wife (J) ["Sonny Boy", from Eggs, Beans and Crumpets].

5. Lord Ickenham is speaking to Pongo Twistleton about Valerie Twistleton's engagement to Horace Davenport [Uncle Fred in the Springtime, ch. 3].