Cast

Bertie Wooster and the black amber statuette^✦︎

• Bertie Wooster insults the black amber statuette Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 6
• Bertie Wooster refuses the black amber statuette Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 9
• Bertie Wooster is said to have stolen the black amber statuette Much Obliged, Jeeves 1, 5

They deal with each other in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17; Much Obliged, Jeeves 1, 5; Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 15.

Scenes they share

1. At a sombre dinner Bertie admires Sir Watkyn's new black amber statuette, bought from Plank and worth a thousand pounds, offends him by calling it soapstone, and slips off to his room afterwards.Chapters 6–7, the Totleigh dining-room
2. Jeeves tells Bertie the statuette has been locked in Sir Watkyn's collection room on Spode's advice, but Stiffy, who has a key, fetches it out and sends it back to Bertie to take to Plank after lunch.Chapter 10, Bertie's room at Totleigh
3. Plank, a Rugger-mad explorer, takes Bertie for a Daily Express reporter, and when Bertie produces the statuette and asks for five pounds he threatens to call the police, just as Jeeves comes in through the french window.Chapters 10–11, Plank's house
4. At Bertie's car Jeeves explains that Sir Watkyn told Stiffy he really paid Plank a thousand pounds and lied to Uncle Tom to annoy him, briefs Bertie on Plank, and takes the statuette himself in case Spode searches Bertie.Chapter 11, Plank's house
5. 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
6. Spode, Sir Watkyn and Plank denounce Bertie as a thief, Madeline drops him and accepts Spode, and when Bertie sneezes behind the sofa Sir Watkyn sends for Constable Oates and promises him twenty-eight days.Chapter 23, Totleigh Towers

Every dealing, in order

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

• Chapter 6Bertie Wooster offends Sir Watkyn by calling soapstone the black amber statuette
• Chapter 9Bertie Wooster refuses to steal the black amber statuette
• Chapter 9Bertie Wooster agrees to steal the black amber statuette
• Chapter 10Bertie Wooster praised at dinner to sweeten the atmosphere the black amber statuette (earlier)
• Chapter 11Bertie Wooster hands over to Jeeves the black amber statuette
• Chapter 12Bertie Wooster told Spode his uncle would be glad to have the black amber statuette (earlier)
• Chapter 17Bertie Wooster promises to try to buy the black amber statuette

Much Obliged, Jeeves

• Chapter 1Bertie Wooster was suspected of pinching the black amber statuette (earlier)
• Chapter 5Bertie Wooster is said by Spode to have stolen the black amber statuette (earlier)

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

• Chapter 15Bertie Wooster is believed by Cook to have stolen and tried to sell to Plank the black amber statuette (earlier)