Little Nugget

A comic crime caper from the popular and prolific twentieth-century author of the Jeeves novels featuring Bertie Wooster. When Ogden Ford, the chubby son of a divorced American millionaire, arrives at a posh English prep school, he sets in motion a dastardly plot. There's a new classics teacher at the school who's not who he purports to be . . . The schoolmaster in training, Peter Burns, is really working for Ogden's mother, who wants her son back after losing custody of him to her ex-husband. What Peter doesn't know is that he's soon to have competition in the kidnapping contest. American gangsters have already targeted the boy, known as "e;Little Nugget,"e; for his ransom value and they aren't afraid to cross the pond to get him. What follows is a convoluted game of thwarted abductions, hair's-breadth escapes, and romantic escapades. Praise for P. G. Wodehouse "e;Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in."e; Evelyn Waugh "e;He exhausts superlatives."e; Stephen Fry "e;Pure word music."e; Douglas Adams