Cast

the black amber statuette^✦︎ and Roderick Spode

• Roderick Spode advises the black amber statuette chapter 10
• Roderick Spode hunts the black amber statuette chapter 12

They deal with each other in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 10, 12.

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. 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
3. 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

• Chapter 10Roderick Spode advises locking up the black amber statuette
• Chapter 12Roderick Spode hunts for the black amber statuette