Part I

1. Blandings Castle, specifically Beach's pantry (Pigs Have Wings, Chapter 11)

2. Ashenden Manor (Uncle Dynamite, Chapter 8)

3. Totleigh Towers, where Sir Watkyn Bassett and Bertie have had a close encounter with the dog Bartholemew. (Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, Chapter 9)

4. Heath House, Ukridge is relating his dreams of a rat and cat ranching. (the story "Buttercup Day")

5. In the BATH, Lord Ickenham wields his great sponge, Joyeuse.

Part II

1. Journey's End, cottage of Julia Ukridge in the story "Ukridge and the Old Stepper"

2. Rudge Hall (Money for Nothing, Chapter 6)

3. Brinkley Court. the story is related by Sir R Glossop a.k.a. Swordfish (Jeeves in the Offing [UK]/ How Right You Are, Jeeves (Am.), Chapter 14)

4. ffinch Hall, lair of Sir Jasper ffinch-ffarowmere in the story "A Slice of Life")

5. JRBf = Junior Bird Fanciers, club mentioned in "The Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner"

Round 402 - 15 July 2009

1. A is the Drones Club; N is Freddie Widgeon. (from the story “Fate")

2. B is the Junior Ganymede Club (Much Obliged, Jeeves, Chapter 1)

3. A still is the Drones Club; Q is Augustus Fink-Nottle (The Code of the Woosters, Chapter 1)

4. C is The Explorers Club in “A Good Cigar Is a Smoke” ; the speakers are Lancelot Bingley and Gladys Wetherby

5. Bertie speaks of Tuppy Glossop to Angela Travers (Right Ho, Jeeves, Chapters 13-14)

6. Betty Compton’s dog’s club (E) is the Beefsteak, where he was sponsored by Mayor James Walker; club D is the Blue Ribbon. (Bring on the Girls, Chapter 15 [UK edition], Chapter 16 [US edition])

7. #1 includes the phrase "Eggs and Beans and Crumpets"
#2 Bertie says, "Thank you, Jeeves"
#3 the words "small bachelor" are mentioned
#4 Lancelot reflects that "A Good Cigar is a Smoke"
#5 Bertie says "Very good, Jeeves"
#6 includes a reference to "cocktail time"

In addition to any other common thread the reader may notice, each excerpt does include at least one person who has raised his or her voice in song in front of an audience, not necessarily in the particular story quoted (Freddie Widgeon, Bertie, B's Aunt Dahlia, Lancelot B in a private performance for Gladys, and Betty Compton in Oh, Kay! and many other places). Thanks to Ian Michaud for this second solution.

Round 403 - 24 July 2009

1. A is Monty Bodkin locked in the cupboard in Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, Chapter 5

2. B is Dolly Molloy outlining a plan to her colleagues Soapy Molloy and Chimp Twist, (C and D) involving framing "Lord Cakebread" (E). (Money in the Bank, Chapter 25)

3. H is Galahad Threepwood, learning from Beach the butler of the plight of his brother Lord Emsworth in the story “Sticky Wicket at Blandings”.

4. Mr Cyril Bunting played the role of Jorkins the butler in Frozen Assets, Chapter 11.

5. Bertie Wooster, imprisoned on the Stoker yacht, remembers from his literary studies the experiences of PI Drexdale Yeats (Thank You Jeeves, Chapter 12)

Round 404 - 2 August 2009

1. This dialogue takes place between Shorty, Lord Shortlands (B) and his daughter Clare (A) in Spring Fever, ch. 3.

2. Lord Ickenham (D) pops back in on Sir Raymond Bastable (C) in Cocktail Time, ch. 10.

3. Sir Mortimer (N) had not warned Lady Bassett (M) that her bedroom would
be haunted by Cyril Mulliner (E) ["Strychnine in the Soup"]

4. Tipton Plimsoll (H) feels hunted by Gally Threepwood (G) in Full Moon, ch. 7.

5. Guy Bolton (J) and PG Wodehouse (K) [from the "author's notes" for the play Come on, Jeeves, also in "Francis Bacon and the Play Doctor" in America, I Like You, and in Over Seventy, ch 18]

Bonus: On the same day:
- in Leave it to Psmith Psmith met Eve and got a necklace stealing job (Eve had already accepted the Blandings library cataloguing job);
- in Quick Service Joss Weatherby met Sally Fairmile and got a job as a valet;
- in Money in the Bank Jeff Miller met Anne Benedick and got a job as a private eye;
- in If I Were You Anthony, fifth Earl of Droitwich, met Polly Brown and got a job as a barber;
- in Do Butlers Burgle Banks Horace Appleby met Ada Cootes and got a job as butler at Mallow Hall;
- In Much Obliged, Jeeves Magnolia Glendennon met Ginger Harold Winship the first time when she got the job as his secretary;
- in Big Money Lady Vera Mace met T Patterson Frisby when she got a chaperoning job;
- in "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird" Trixie Waterbury got an acting job the day she became engaged to Bertram W Wooster.

Round 405 - 10 August 2009

1. This sniffer – let us call her sniffer A – is Mavis Peasmarch. ("Bramley Is So Bracing", Nothing Serious; also in US edition of Eggs, Beans and Crumpets)

2. The potential sniffer is Sir Watkyn Bassett. (The Code of the Woosters, Chapter 2)

3. Rosa, the maid, sniffs to express her opinion of Dolly Molloy; G is Mrs Evans, the cook. (Money for Nothing, Chapter 13)

4. Hermione Brimble, Mervyn Potter's fiancée, sniffs for a different reason. (Barmy in Wonderland, US title Angel Cake, Chapter 13)

5. The sniffers are Lord Emsworth and a woolly dog. ("Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best", Blandings Castle)

6. The cup-cracking sniffer is Mrs Lora Smith Maplebury. ("Keeping In with Vosper", The Heart of a Goof, US title Divots)

Round 406 - 18 August 2009

1. The two snorters are Chimp Twist and Jeff Miller; C is Lord Uffenham. (Money in the Bank, Chapter 6)

2. The expert snorter is Sir Aylmer Bostock; the target of his snort is Bill Oakshott. (Uncle Dynamite, Chapter 11)

3. Miss Bond, too, snorts at nephews. (Do Butlers Burgle Banks? Chapter 10)

4. F is Monty Bodkin, G is Ivor Llewellyn. (Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, US title The Plot That Thickened, Chapter 6)

5. Snorter J is a bucked-up Augustine Mulliner. (“Mulliner’s Buck-U-Uppo”; the text is from the story’s magazine publication in Liberty, September 4, 1926; the version published in Meet Mr Mulliner includes the snort but not the flakes of plaster.)

6. This snorter is Syd Price. (If I Were You, Chapter 18)

Round 407 - 27 August 2009

1. The sneezer is Officer Garroway; B is Molly Waddington Finch. (The Small Bachelor, Chapter 15)

2. Chimp Twist sneezes while hiding in Eustace Trumper’s wardrobe. (Money in the Bank, Chapter 16)

3. The sickroom of Arnold Abney, sneezing from a bad cold, is brightened by a visit from a gang of gun-wielding toughs. (The Little Nugget, Chapter 15)

4. Julia Ukridge is “sniffing eucalyptyus and sneezing a good deal”. (“Ukridge Starts a Bank Account”, Plum Pie)

5. H is Bingo Little, G is Mr Purkiss. (“The Editor Regrets”, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets)

Round 408 - 4 September 2009

1. Stanley F Ukridge snores after being served knock-out drops by a bogus curate. (“Buttercup Day”, Eggs, Beans and Crumpets)

2. C is for Cedric Mulliner; the snorer is Mr Watling. (“The Story of Cedric”, Mr Mulliner Speaking)

3. E is Mortimer Bayliss; F is Lord Uffenham, sleeping through the dénouement of the novel Something Fishy (US title The Butler Did It), Chapter 26.

4. The snorer is Clarence “Hash” Todhunter; F and G are Sam Shotter and John B Pynsent. (Sam the Sudden, Chapter 1)

5. The final snorer is Algernon Martyn; the setting is Ashby Hall. (Company for Henry, US title The Purloined Paperweight, Chapter 12)

Round 409 - 14 September 2009

1. Sally Preston, (B), chose an unusual way of introducing herself to her new neighbour, the gardener Thomas Kitchener, (A), in the story “Something to Worry About” from The Man Upstairs and other Stories.

2. Archie Moffam’s (C’s) attempt at labour negotiations somewhat surprisingly paid dividends in Chapter 24 of Indiscretions of Archie as union leader Aloysius Connolly, (D), called off a strike that had halted the construction of a new hotel.

3. In Chapter Two of Frozen Assets (US title: Biffen’s Millions) Jerry Shoesmith and Kay Christopher, (E), enjoyed a spot in a working man’s bistro in Paris.

4. Mr Wapshott, (F), a retired inspector of drains, caused Ukridge’s latest scheme to spring a leak in “Ukridge and the Home from Home”, first collected in Lord Emsworth and Others (UK) and in Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (US).

5. In Chapter 20 of Summer Moonshine the multi-talented Joe Vanringham brought his wicked stepmother up to date on his activities since their parting of brass-rags some years earlier.

Round 410 - 22 September 2009

1. Eustace Mulliner had the embarrassing problem of being engaged to two girls at the same time in the short story “Open House”, first collected in Mulliner Nights. But poor Eustace’s embarrassment was just beginning.

2. In Chapter One of Full Moon, the beautiful Veronica Wedge, (C), was contemplating her appearance at the forthcoming Shropshire County Ball.

3. In the opinion of Mervyn Potter, (E), his guardian angels were hard at work in his best interests when his engagement to Heloise Brimble, (D), was broken off in Chapter 17 of Barmy in Wonderland (US title: Angel Cake).

4. Galahad Threepwood’s (F’s) theory that an overworked and over-refreshed Beach, (G), had misheard the name of a telephone caller failed to convince a suspicious sister in Chapter 9 of Galahad at Blandings (US title: The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood).

5. In Chapter 8 of The Girl on the Boat (Chapter 9 of the US title: Three Men and a Maid) Sir Mallaby Marlowe, recalling the beaver-like industry of his younger days, decided it was time his layabout son Sam, (I), started earning his living.