Celebrating 120 years of P. G. Wodehouse with his very first novel. 'What a mad thing to go and
do. Jolly sporting though.' Suspicion abounds at St Austin's School when two silver trophies
or 'pots' are stolen from the cricket pavilion. Jim Thomson a talented sportsman who due to
an unfortunate series of coincidences could be thought to be the burglar resolves to clear his
name. Featuring a man from Scotland Yard chases through the woods and an exasperated
headmaster Wodehouse's first novel is a paean to his beloved idyllic late Victorian
schooldays punctuated by bouts of gentlemanly sport and comic escapades. All the hallmarks of
what makes Wodehouse the greatest comic writer of all are in evidence here in a spiffing read
for Wodehouse aficionados and the uninitiated alike.
