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When a Man Marries is a 1910 novel by American author
Mary Roberts Rinehart. (US Edition) (UK Edition)
Here is a very promising Amazon Reader Review:
"Very much in the style
of Wodehouse. A delightful comedy about a bunch of silly rich people who get
stuck quarantined in a house with no servants for a week. . . . A quick read
and lots of fun."
And here is a very promising beginning!
When the dreadful thing
occurred that night, every one turned on me. The injustice of it hurt me most.
They said I got up the dinner, that I asked them to give up other engagements
and come, that I promised all kinds of jollification, if they would come; and
then when they did come and got in the papers and every one—but ourselves—laughed
himself black in the face, they turned on ME! I, who suffered ten times to
their one! I shall never forget what Dallas Brown said to me, standing with a
coal shovel in one hand and a—well, perhaps it would be better to tell it all
in the order it happened.
It began with Jimmy Wilson
and a conspiracy, was helped on by a foot-square piece of yellow paper and a
Japanese butler, and it enmeshed and mixed up generally ten respectable members
of society and a policeman. Incidentally, it involved a pearl collar and a box
of soap, which sounds incongruous, doesn't it?
I thought my readers might enjoy Nonagerian Loves Her Kindle, a video I made last week of my mother with her Kindle. She thinks everyone should have a Kindle!
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I like the sound of that book, although it seems to me more like Jerome K Jerome than Wodehouse.
ReplyDeleteLoved the video of your mother; what a wonderful woman!
I suppose they meant Wodehouse in that it was a comedy and house party. This would be a fun one to research!
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