Deze serie humoristische korte verhalen dompelt je onder in de wereld van een exclusieve Londense herenclub, bevolkt door luie, bevoorrechte jongemannen. Volg de escapades van de vaak goedbedoelende maar onfortuinlijke leden terwijl ze zich door sociale benarde situaties, romantische verwikkelingen en de occasionele behoefte om werk te vermijden worstelen. Verwacht geestige dialogen, absurde situaties en een heerlijke satire op de Britse upper class. Het is een tijdloze kijk op een wereld van vrije tijd, verkeerde identiteiten en komische tegenslagen.
Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly Molloy want to get their hands on a cache of stolen jewels hidden in the house of Freddie's neighbour in the suburb of Valley Fields. When their paths cross, the ensuing misunderstandings lead to vintage Wodehouse comedy.
When Jill Mariner is arrested for fighting over a parrot and then loses all her money on the same day, she is abandoned by her pompous fiance and goes to stay with her rich relations on Long Island. Heading for New York, she ends up in the chorus of a musical comedy on Broadway where she eventually finds the man of her dreams.
Monty Bodkin's wooing of Gertrude Butterwick on the R.M.S. Atlantic is not progressing as it should. And the cause of all the trouble is Miss Lotus Blossum, the brightest star in Hollywood's firmament. The easy camaraderie of Miss Blossom, coupled with the idea that Monty is the only person who can send the errant Ambrose back to her welcoming arms, is causing Mr Bodkin moments of acute distress.
Funny things can happen in Old Hollywood. When Joey Cooley, the child star, and the third Earl of Havershot swap souls in the dentist's surgery, it's a gas - in the fourth dimension.
Following a contretemps with Colonel Wyvern, what could be better than a sojourn at Healthward Ho? Quite a lot, as it turns out, when Lester Carmody of Rudge Hall puts himself into the hands of Dr Twist, the aptly named owner of the establishment, and pursues a devious money-making scheme.
Monty Bodkin has returned to London from Hollywood, leaving Sandy Miller, his secretary there, heartbroken, because Monty loves English hockey international Gertrude Butterwick instead of her.
When an Egg meets a Bean and they are bought a round of cocktails by a Crumpet, the stories fly fast and furious.....there's A Bit of Luck for Mabel, Bingo Little manages to survive A Pekinese Crisis, and a spot of Romance at Droitwich Spa. EGGS BEANS AND CRUMPETS is a masterpiece of comic writing.
Love is a powerful spur, and Cyril Fotheringay-Phipps (known to his friends as Barmy) invests his modest fortune in a stage production, encouraged by his admiration for the delectable Miss Dinty Moore. And so he demonstrates that affairs of the heart and high finance may be happily combined.