Leave it to Psmith — P.G. Wodehouse

As Punch once wrote, criticising P.G. Wodehouse ‘is like taking a spade to souffle’. In Leave it to Psmith Wodehouse creates an England unsullied by war, with quaint towns unchanged with the centuries, and delightfully absent-minded earls live in grand country estates whose sweeping vistas hide secretaries to be feared and where domestic staff are hatching plots and could be detectives in disguise.