The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish✦︎
Also improving book, the volume in question, Crayfish
The Rex West thriller Bertie is reading, and claims as his alibi, to Florence's dismay.
Connections
dealings
- Bertie Wooster reads, tells a cover story about 3
- Percy Gorringe writes 2
- Florence Craye disapproves of 1
Talked about, but not there
- Jeeves, posing as Bertie, refuses Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds, declines to tear Bertie's pages from the club book, and puts Florence through on the phone; she asks Bertie to take her to a garish night club, and he agrees, hoping to patch things up between her and Stilton.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
- Florence telephones to learn that the magistrate who fined Bertie is Stilton's uncle, reveals that she and Stilton are engaged again, begs Bertie to keep the night club secret, and Stilton silently appears in the room.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's flat, as
improving book
- Locked in his room, Bertie repels Stilton through the keyhole, sends Jeeves for a strong whisky-and-soda, and is then invaded by an agitated Aunt Dahlia demanding Jeeves to save her.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Brinkley
- Bertie climbs the ladder into what he takes for Aunt Dahlia's room, knocks over a table, and finds Florence Craye sitting up in bed.Chapters 12–14, Florence's bedroom
- At breakfast a beaming Stilton thanks Bertie for freeing him from Florence and leaves to go rowing with Daphne, then Mrs. Trotter reads that Robert Blenkinsop has been knighted and orders Trotter to refuse any knighthood, wrecking Aunt Dahlia's hold on him, just as Seppings brings in a pearl necklace.Chapters 20–22, the Brinkley dining-room