Edgar Allan Poe

Bertie likens the Pringles to characters in Poe's gloomy stories.

In each book 3 books

• In Carry On, Jeeves
  Bertie likens the Pringles to characters in Poe's gloomy stories.
• In The Code of the Woosters
  Author of The Purloined Letter.
• In Jeeves in the Offing
  The writer of the sinister, to whose houses Bertie likens Brinkley.

Connections

dealings

• writes The Purloined Letter^✦︎ 1

Talked about, but not there

Carry On, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Bertie meets the dismal Pringles, inherits Sippy’s reputation for tormenting cats and discovers Heloise’s resemblance to Honoria.Chapter 7, the Pringle drawing-room

The Code of the Woosters 1 scene

1. Jeeves tells how a thief took the cow-creamer while Stinker, waiting in the dark for Bertie, punched Oates on the nose, and Oates now plans to search Bertie's room, just as Aunt Dahlia rushes in and thrusts the cow-creamer into Bertie's hands.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Totleigh

Jeeves in the Offing 2 scenes

1. Over tea Mrs Cream declares the butler Swordfish (really Sir Roderick Glossop) a crook after Uncle Tom's silver, Bobbie refuses to let Bertie flee Brinkley, and Bertie resolves to wire Aunt Dahlia at Eastbourne.Chapter 5, the lawn
2. Kipper bursts into Aunt Dahlia's boudoir to confess that Bobbie has read the stinking letter he wrote her and now says she will marry Bertie, who leaps up to drive to Jeeves at Herne Bay.Chapter 10, Aunt Dahlia's den