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    2003-08-09

    Do Butlers Burgle Banks?

    By P.G. Wodehouse
    Reviewed by Boudewijn Rempt on August 09, 2003

    Another late Wodehouse — 1968. Do Butlers Burgle Banks is sufficiently recent that it will never come out of copyright, thanks to the Mickey Mouse act. So you all will have to hope for a reprint, since it is only available second-hand nowadays.


    It is worth hunting it down, though. A slightly unconventional Wodehouse, the burglar is a fine and intellectual man, a great planner and an excellent burglar. The title question must, therefore, be answered with an unreserved, 'Yes'. Butlers do burgle banks — and that's not a spoiler.

    This Wodehouse, while not as outrageous as the average Jeeves story, features some very fine similes, too, and a few lovely situations. The only character who doesn't quite work is Claude Potter, a Scotland Yard sergeant on holiday.

    He's a prominent Chicago gunman. He's been shooting people all his life, and I cannot advise you too strongly to place yourself unreservedly in his hands. Nothing but good can result from it, and it won't hurt, if that's what's bothering you. No worse than a bad cold.

    With that bit of advice, I want to leave you. I mean — Wodehouse is something to read for yourself..