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P. G. Wodehouse

1940175 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1940
first published
  • 1940Doubleday, Doran · 310 pages · ENG
  • 1941Longmans, Green · 252 pages · ENG
  • 1954Penguin Books · 190 pages · ENG
  • 1960H. Jenkins · 175 pages · ENG
  • 1980Barrie and Jenkins · 175 pages · ENGISBN 9780257661780
  • 2004Overlook Press · 227 pages · ENGISBN 9781585675234
  • 1981Amereon Ltd · ENGISBN 9780848806798
  • 1981Penguin (Non-Classics) · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780140009941

"When imperious American widow Beatrice Chavender eats a forkful of inferior ham at her sister's country house near London, it affects the lives of everyone around her-- her sister, her brother-in-law, her sister's butler, her sister's poor relation, Sally, Sally's fiancé Lord Holbeton, and, most of all, Mrs. Chavender's own one-time fiancé, 'Ham King' J.B. Duff, whose rotten product spoils her breakfast"--P. [4] of cover.

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