The Man with Two Left Feet

Wodehouse, P G; P G Wodehouse

ISBN 10: 1421896680 / ISBN 13: 9781421896687

Published by 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Man with Two Left Feet
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1421896680
• ISBN 13: 9781421896687
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

There's a divinity that shapes our ends. Consider the case of Henry Pifield Rice, detective. I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment. If I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require him to solve mysteries which had baffled the police. He had never measured a footprint in his life, and what he did not know about bloodstains would have filled a library. The sort of job they gave Henry was to stand outside a restaurant in the rain, and note what time someone inside left it. In short, it is not 'Pifield Rice, Investigator. No. 1.-The Adventure of the Maharajah's Ruby' that I submit to your notice, but the unsensational doings of a quite commonplace young man, variously known to his comrades at the Bureau as 'Fathead', 'That blighter what's-his-name', and 'Here, you!'

About the Author

P. G. Wodehouse (1881 1975) spent much of his life in Southampton, New York, but was born in England and educated in Surrey. He became an American citizen in 1955. In a literary career spanning more than seventy years, he published more than ninety books and twenty film scripts, and collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies.