I have had the good fortune to own a bookstore for a lot of my adult life ... we got in a copy of “Jeeves Takes Charge” some years back and fell in love with his use of language...the slang mixed with the more proper language of London...you are correct though...haven’t found another person in Southeast Missouri that’s read a word of “Plum’s” work...magritte
What I find amazing about Plum is that most authors are lucky if they can come up with one memorable "saga", but Plum had
- Jeeves and Wooster (right from 'Extricating Young Gussie')
- Blandings Castle (Lord Emsworth MAKES this series, probably more than Gally!)
- Psmith
- Mike and various school books (his early books were set in English boarding schools
- Mulliners Tales
- Uncle Fred (Uncle Dynamite!)
- The Ukridge stories
And besides this the numerous shorts and one-offs.
There's no one who has managed to use the English language quite as well.
Do you remember this one from "Jeeves and the Old School Chum"
Miss Pyke's criticisms will have been instrumental in moving the hitherto unformulated dissatisfaction from the subconscious to the conscious mind
:)