Wodehouse competition in Books, 31st March

[sharon mit]

I have searched and searched until I am blue in the face but I cannot find the answers to Q 5 - who married..... a) Sally Painter b) Veronica Wedge c) Rosie m Banks..... Any of you beauties out there able to help?

[con-amca]

Rosie M. Banks was married to Bingo Little.

I haven't heard of the other two.

[sharon mit]

Thanks - he was one of my 'suspects'!
One down, two to go.....

[08012006]

Veronica Wedge
The daughter of Lady Hermione and Colonel Wedge is a spectacularly attractive girl, a fact which never ceases to amaze her doting father and attracts scrums of fashionable photographers whenever she appears in public. She has a direct way about her, and invariably follows her parents' instructions to the letter, even when it comes to falling in love. Her extreme beauty is matched by her extreme simplicity of mind, a fact which does not put off Tipton Plimsoll when he meets her shortly before her twenty-third birthday, in Full Moon. Veronica was once engaged to her cousin Freddie Threepwood, which causes Plimsoll much jealous ire. She has a love of jewellery, which Plimsoll goes out of his way to satisfy, and despite some misguided efforts by her mother to split them up, she ends up eloping with her man to a registry office, at the climax of Galahad at Blandings.

[08012006]

Uncle Dynamite

Uncle Fred has just arrived at Ashenden Manor, home of Sir Aylmer Bostock, Pongo's future father-in-law. Pongo is already in residence and has committed two rank floaters: accidentally smashing a whatnot from Sir Aylmer's collection of African curios, and (in the course of demonstrating how Brazilian natives kill birds with rude slings) smashing a coveted bust of his host.
Pongo's solution is to replace the busted bust with another one, abstracted from Ickenham hall. But unknown to him, the replacement bust was fashioned by his former fianc�e Sally Painter, and conceals valuable jewellery that a friend of hers was planning to smuggle through New York Customs.
Sally tries to replace the bust with another of Sir Aylmer she sculpted (but had had returned to her, after an unfortunate incident relating to her brother Otis' publication of Sir Aylmer's memoirs), but this comes to naught, and both busts end up in Sir Aylmer's collection room.
Uncle Fred sees these not as reverses, but opportunities to show his stuff. Having met Bill Oakshott (the nominal owner of Ashenden Manor, but under the thumb of his uncle Sir Aylmer) on the train, he contrives to get invited to the house�under the name of Major Brabazon-Plank. Unfortunately, the local Constable, Harold Potter, happens to have grown up with Major Plank (and also happens to remember arresting Uncle Fred and Pongo at the dog races under the names of Edwin Smith of Nasturtium Road, East Dulwich). Potter, intimately tied to the household through his fianc�e, the housemaid Elsie Bean, becomes suspicious, and watches the house.
Uncle Fred's tasks before him are to snatch the bust for Sally Painter; get Sir Aylmer to drop his suit against Otis, so Sally will not lose the money she invested in his firm; convince Pongo to turn down Hermione Bostock and marry Sally instead;,,,,

[sharon mit]

Yay - thanks sooo much - I've read all of the Wodehouse books but that was years ago and even then I borrowed them from a friend.