Death at the Excelsior, P.G. Wodehouse
Death at the Excelsior, P.G. Wodehouse
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Death at the Excelsior
Classic Tales Edition

Author: P.G. Wodehouse

Narrator: B.J. Harrison

Unabridged: 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: B.J. Harrison

Published: 12/29/2011

Synopsis

Inside a quiet boarding house on the waterfront, a man stares up to the ceiling with sightless eyes. The tight lipped landlady proclaims that it is murder. Can an upscale detective agency penetrate to the bottom of the mystery?

About P.G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English writer best known for his humorous novels and plays with such memorable characters as, Psmith, Mr. Mulliner, Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves. A prolific writer with some ninety books, forty plays, and two hundred short stories to his credit, he has been described as a “comic poet” with a gift for high farce.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hunter on May 26, 2015

4 to 4-1/2 on this one. Two stories with Jeeves, brilliant stories, and then Wodehouse introduces a character I've never read named Reggie Pepper, who's as bone-headed and hilarious as any Wodehouse created. I read this as part of a brilliant Goodreads group called "Reading Wodehouse" for the Januar......more

Goodreads review by Manuel on October 06, 2024

ENGLISH: This book contains seven Wodehouse stories published between 1911 and 1921 and collected posthumously. I have read them in another edition, together with four additional stories. Two are about Jeeves and three about Reggie Pepper. Those I've liked best are the following: When Papa swore in H......more

Goodreads review by Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) on November 15, 2020

Gutenberg says this collection of short stories was especially compiled for them which surprises me, but then that's neither here nor there. The title story is a complete departure for Wodehouse, being a detective story. Then we are given a rather odd little story of a minor crim's revenge gone wron......more

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