Charteris' Notebook

Tales of St. Austin's (variorum edition) (PDF, 2,126 KB) This is the fifth edition of its kind I've completed. It has been in the w...

In Wodehouse's short story "A Division of Spoil" ( The Captain , September 1906, online here ) there is a mathematical error. ...

In an interview published in the Christmas 1935 number of The Book Window: A Guide to Book Buying and Book Reading Wodehouse was asked what...

In his column for  Punch , July 17, 1957 Wodehouse wrote: Leonard F. Genz of Greenwich, Conn., is a man who can be pushed just so far. When ...

The Little Warrior (variorum edition) (PDF, 4,732 KB) The Little Warrior ( Jill the Reckless in the UK) is Wodehouse's longest book e...

There is a very, very elusive bit of song lyric quoted in chapter 10.3 of Wodehouse's novel Frozen Assets (1964): "By the time He...

Previous sections: 1.—Introduction. Writing and production 2.—Reception 3.—Ruth Gordon's memoirs. Afterlife 4.—Reconstruction of the plo...