Oates's helmet^✦︎

Also helmet, Constable Oates’s helmet, the helmet, a policeman’s helmet, Police Constable Oates’s helmet, Eustace Oates’s helmet, Government property, lid

Constable Oates's helmet, pinched by Stinker for Stiffy, hidden in Bertie's suitcase and finally found in a flower bed.

In each book 2 books

• In The Code of the Woosters
  Constable Oates's helmet, pinched by Stinker for Stiffy, hidden in Bertie's suitcase and finally found in a flower bed.
• In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
  Constable Oates's helmet, pinched by Stinker at Stiffy's urging on Bertie's last visit and landed on Bertie just before his room was searched.

Connections

dealings

• Stinker Pinker steals, tries or plans to steal 7
• Constable Oates owns 6
• Stiffy Byng hides, acquires 4
• Butterfield takes, finds 3
• Jeeves finds 2
• Sir Watkyn Bassett threatens, searches for 2
• Bertie Wooster handles 1
• Bertie's small suitcase^✦︎ contains 1

Everyone and everything else (1)

• Roderick Spode takes the blame for 1

Scenes it is in

1. Stinker climbs in by the balcony with Oates’s helmet, is reconciled with Stiffy, and is told that Bertie will help with the cow-creamer scheme at midnight.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room, as the helmet
2. Bertie threatens to tell Stinker of the blackmail, Stiffy counters with Sir Watkyn, Jeeves proposes Bertie pretend to be engaged to Stiffy, and Bertie is forced off to the library to do it.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room
3. After Aunt Dahlia leaves, Bertie relaxes with brandy and declares the troubles over, only for Jeeves to find a policeman's helmet in the small suitcase he is packing.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as a policeman’s helmet
4. Stiffy admits hiding the helmet in Bertie's suitcase and, by appealing to the Code of the Woosters, gets him to agree to take the rap for Harold.Chapter 13, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as helmet
5. Jeeves says 'Eureka' and recommends dropping the helmet out of the window as footsteps approach.Chapter 13, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as helmet
6. Bertie tosses the helmet out of the window, Sir Watkyn's search of his room finds nothing, and as Bertie harangues him the butler appears with the helmet on a salver.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as helmet

Talked about, but not there

The Code of the Woosters 7 scenes

1. Bartholomew upsets Constable Oates off his bicycle, Stiffy admits she has Gussie's notebook, and reveals that she is secretly engaged to Stinker Pinker and has told him to pinch Oates's helmet.Chapter 4, the Totleigh gates, as his helmet
2. Stiffy comes back early, refuses to call off her dog, and tells Bertie she has broken off her engagement to Stinker because he would not pinch the policeman’s helmet.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room, as Eustace Oates’s helmet
3. Bertie asks Sir Watkyn for Stiffy's hand, and when Stiffy says she would rather marry the curate, the horrified Sir Watkyn gladly consents to her marrying Harold Pinker instead.Chapter 9, the library, as Constable Oates’s helmet
4. Stiffy exults over Jeeves's scheme, reveals that Oates suspects her of the helmet theft and that she has hidden Gussie's notebook in the cow-creamer, and Butterfield summons Bertie to Madeline.Chapter 9, Totleigh Towers, as that helmet
5. Bertie tells Jeeves to pack for home and crows over the notebook, until Gussie trickles in to say the wedding is off.Chapters 10–11, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as helmet
6. 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, as helmet
7. Bertie refuses to let Aunt Dahlia buy his freedom with Anatole, plans his release dinner, defies Sir Watkyn, and is saved when Spode confesses to stealing the helmet.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as helmet

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 3 scenes

1. Brooding at the Drones, Bertie is told that the Rev. H. P. Pinker wants to see him, and Stinker lumbers in and upsets a small table.Chapters 2–3, the Drones smoking-room, as helmet
2. Relieved, Bertie goes home and finds Gussie in a cab bound for Totleigh, who raves about Emerald Stoker and then declares that Madeline makes him sick.Chapters 3–4, Bertie's flat, as Constable Oates’s helmet
3. Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.Chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Police Constable Oates’s helmet