I'm going to nominate
Something New/Something Fresh, the first of P.G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle novels. I can't imagine anything more delightful than a Wodehouse summer read.
Something New is the original title of its 1915 US publication; it was published the following year in the UK as
Something Fresh. As the date indicates, it's public domain in the US and thus a free read for us Yanks.
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This is the first Blandings novel, In which P.G. Wodehouse intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his log-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler.
As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one imposter on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'. In Something Fresh there are two, each with an eye on a valuable Egytian amulet which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this...
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