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Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin

Name: Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
Author: P.G. Wodehouse

Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 12 October 1972 by Barrie & Jenkins, London and in the United States on 6 August 1973 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the title The Plot That Thickened.Monty Bodkin, nephew of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, is back from his adventures in Hollywood, with his situation, as introduced in Heavy Weather and The Luck of the Bodkins , still as complicated as ever. Other recurring Wodehouse characters also appear, including film studio president Ivor Llewellyn, sneaky crook Alexander "Chimp" Twist, and Chimp's rivals Soapy and Dolly Molloy. Llewellyn returns in the following novel Bachelors Anonymous .

“There are girls, few perhaps but to be found if one searches carefully, who when their advice is ignored and disaster ensues, do not say "I told you so."”

P.G. Wodehouse book Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin

Mavis was not of their number.
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972)