Cocktail Time

Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, is not the man to run away from other people-s romantic problems, not even when faced with the tangled relationships of his godson, Johnny, Johnny-s girlfriend, Belinda, butler Albert Peasemarch and Peasemarch-s beloved, Phoebe, who happens to be the sister of his employer, bad-tempered Sir Raymond -Beefy- Bastable. Sir Raymond is himself in pursuit of Barbara Crowe. Everything turns on the fate of the script for a film called Cocktail-Time by Bastable-s nephew, Cosmo Wisdom - but just to stir the mixture a little further, Wodehouse throws in American con-artist Oily Carlisle. Now read on...