WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Plot That Thickened.

Revisiting Monty Bodkin After Thirty Years

WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Plot That Thickened. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1973.

8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, spine and upper board lettered and decorated in gilt, in the unclipped dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Bacon; pp. [2], 221, [1 (blank)]; small closed tear to front panel (c. 10 mm), but otherwise bright dust-jacket, toning and light spotting to edges of textblock; near fine.

First US edition, first printing, published simultaneously with the UK edition.

After a gap of over thirty years, this novel picks up the story of Monty Bodkin from Heavy Weather (1933) and The Luck of the Bodkins (1935). The novel was published simultaneously in the UK and US on 15 October 1971, the US edition under the alternative title The Plot that Thickened.

Mcllvaine A95b.

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