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Sam the Sudden

by P. G. Wodehouse

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This is a cute, romantic story about Sam and how he wins the girl of his dreams. It has classic Wodehouse style with pompous aristocrats and clueless young punks. The criminals Soapy Molloy and Chimp Twist try to get into Sam's house to secure the loot from a long-ago heist which is believed to be hidden there. A little rambling, especially in the first half. (

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Pferdina | Aug 24, 2008 |

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To Edgar Wallace

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All day long, New York, stewing in the rays of a late August sun, had been growing warmer and warmer; until now, at three o'clock in the afternoon, its inhabitants, with the exception of a little group gathered together on the tenth floor of the Wilmot Building on Upper Broadway, had divided themselves by a sort of natural cleavage into two main bodies - the one crawling about and asking those they met if this was hot enough for them, the other maintaining that what they minded was not so much the heat as the humidity.

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UK title 'Sam the Sudden', US title 'Sam in the Suburbs'

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Overlook Press blurb:
Sent to England by his rich American uncle to work for the Mammoth Publishing Corporation, Sam Shotter takes up residence in peaceful Valley Fields so that he can live next door to the girl of his dreams. But life in the suburbs soon hots up when it turns out that Sam's new home is the supposed resting place of stolen millions, now of interest to gangsters Dolly and Soapy Molloy.
This classic early Wodehouse story is enlivened by a cast of familiar characters, including monstrous press magnate, Lord Tilbury, and blithering crook, Chimp Twist.

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