L. P. Runkle

Also called Runkle, Mr Runkle, The camera bloke, men in Panama hats, bulging bounders in Panama hats, obese bird in a Panama hat, The stinker supreme

The obese financier staying at Brinkley, who did Tuppy's father out of his invention's profits, owns the porringer and accuses Bertie of stealing it.

Connections

dealings

• is the target of a touch by, is considered a stinker by Aunt Dahlia 22
• is avoided by, is considered a stinker by Bertie Wooster 11
• employs, has as accomplice Brinkley 5
• owns, hopes to sell the porringer^✦︎ 5
• admires the cooking of, covets Anatole 4
• owes money to Tuppy Glossop 3
• hopes to sell to Uncle Tom 3
• is thought a twenty-minute egg by Jeeves 2

Everyone and everything else (11)

• cashes in on the Magic Midgets^✦︎ 2
• is a friend of Roderick Spode 2
• owns Runkle's camera^✦︎ 2
• employs Tuppy's father 2
• guards Bertie's room at Brinkley 1
• keeps it in the chest of drawers in the Blue Room^✦︎ 1
• tells Florence Craye 1
• admires Madeline Bassett 1
• heads Runkle's Enterprises^⁂ 1
• fears for Runkle's Panama^✦︎ 1
• sends on an errand Seppings 1

Scenes they are in

1. Bertie picks up a camera left on a bench to save it from the coming storm, and its stout, pink-faced owner bursts out of the bushes taking him for a thief.Chapter 5, the wooded bit, as an individual
2. Outside the French window Bertie overhears Spode, now Lord Sidcup, tell the camera chap that Wooster is a thief, and the camera chap vows the stiffest sentence if Bertie touches the silver he has brought to sell Uncle Tom.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room, as my recent acquaintance
3. Crossing the lawn, Bertie finds Aunt Dahlia waiting for Runkle to wake in the hammock, and lectures her on why Ginger puts up with Florence until she tells him to go and drown himself.Chapter 12, the lawn
4. Sneaking into the Blue Room to return the porringer, Bertie treads on Gus the cat, wakes Runkle, and covers himself by saying Aunt Dahlia wants Runkle to take photographs.Chapter 15, the Blue Room
5. Runkle storms down, accuses Bertie of stealing the porringer and sends Seppings for the police, and Jeeves invents a jury summons so Bertie can slip up to London to think.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court, as Runkle
6. Runkle gloats that Bertie is bound for prison, egg-covered Florence announces she will marry Bertie after all, then drops him when Runkle says he stole the porringer, and Runkle goes off to meet Bingley.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room
7. Bingley has found the porringer in Bertie's room and Runkle offers to drop charges in exchange for Anatole, until Jeeves reveals from the club book that Runkle bribed a juror and jumped bail in America, and Aunt Dahlia turns the tables over Tuppy's money.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Runkle

Talked about, but not there

1. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room, as men in Panama hats
2. Bertie goes down to dinner gloomily, knowing that Spode, Madeline, Florence and Runkle will all be there to spoil Anatole's cooking.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court
3. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court
4. Aunt Dahlia hurls a Rex Stout at Bertie for failing, is herself turned away by Bastable, and then Jeeves arrives to reveal he slipped Bingley a Mickey Finn and took back the club book, whereupon she sets off to tackle L. P. Runkle.Chapters 11–12, the Brinkley drawing-room
5. Brooding on his aunt's poor chances and on Ginger's coming ticking-off, Bertie walks into the summerhouse and finds Ginger locked in an embrace with Magnolia Glendennon.Chapters 12–13, the summer-house
6. Bertie finds Jeeves reading Spinoza by the back door, tells him Ginger must somehow lose the election despite Spode's oratory, and warns him to keep out of Ginger's way.Chapter 14, the back door
7. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Madeline is in tears because Spode wants to give up his title to stand for Parliament, then slips off to tackle Runkle.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Runkle
8. Aunt Dahlia returns furious because Runkle will not part with a penny for Tuppy and Angela's wedding, and reveals she has pinched his porringer.Chapters 14–15, the Brinkley drawing-room
9. Bertie drives back from London with none of his problems solved and is hauled out of the car by egg-spattered Ginger, who says the debate was a riot, Florence has dropped him, and he is off to London to marry Magnolia.Chapter 16, the drive
10. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Spode, put off politics by the potato, has kept his title and gone off to London with Madeline, freeing Bertie from marrying her.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room
11. Over breakfast in bed Bertie reviews the happy endings all round, frets about the Junior Ganymede club book, and learns Jeeves has already destroyed his eighteen pages: 'Much obliged, Jeeves.'Chapter 17, as Runkle