Somerset Maugham

Also called Maugham, Mr Somerset Maugham

The writer cited on life in the Straits Settlements, whose beachcomber story Bill recalls.

Talked about, but not there

1. Over the port Biggar tells how Honest Patch Perkins welshed on his three-thousand-pound double, reveals the bookie's car number is Bill's, and is talked round by Jeeves's theory of a false number plate before going off to make a private telephone call.Chapter 8, the dining room, as Mr Somerset Maugham
2. Biggar catches Bill and Jeeves from behind and proposes that Bill 'borrow' Mrs Spottsworth's pendant to pawn for a bet on Ballymore, and after telling how he once bought it from a beachcomber in Shanghai and gave it to her, wins Bill's agreement.Chapters 12–13, the living room, as Maugham