Ian looks at the 1997 posthumous collection of Wodehouse short school stories, Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere, featuring stories that first appeared in magazines from 1901-1911. No plot spoilers for once, except one that comes with an advance warning.

List of Doyle/Holmes references in Wodehouse's early works

Index to school stories viewable at Madame Eulalie

Guide to early series characters, and an attempted explanation of which Jackson is which

All of the school novels

Tales of St Austin's

Psmith in the City

The Prince and Betty

The Luck of the Bodkins

Not George Washington

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

"Treating of Cribs"

"The Fifteenth Man"

"From a Detective's Notebook" (The World of Mr Mulliner)

"The Great Sermon Handicap"

The Joan Romney stories

Daniel H. Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse (Third Expanded Edition)

Tony Ring and Geoffrey Jaggard, Millennium Wodehouse Concordance

Henry Bohn's Classic Library (used as "cribs" by Edwardian schoolboys)

Barry Pain

The works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Otto Penzler (ed.) Sherlock

Peter Cannon, "The Adventure of the Noble Husband"

Without A Clue

Charles Hamilton, the Greyfriars Stories

F C Burnand, "Happy Thoughts"

Sir Walter Scott, "Marmion"

Lewis Carroll, "Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter Writing"

Punch

Wodehousekeeping on Bluesky

Wodehousekeeping on Facebook

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