A complicated chain of events is set into motion after Mrs. Chavender takes a bite of breakfast ham, declares it inedible, and sets out to complain to Duf and Trotter, one of London's most exclusive merchants.

Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth has good health, a large income and a first-class ancestral home. But these blessings count for nothing in the presence of Sir Gregory Parsloe, whom Emsworth suspects of having evil designs on his pre-eminent pig.

When a man needs only 200 to marry his cook and buy a public house, one would expect his life to be trouble free, but the fifth Earl of Shortlands has to reckon with his haughty daughter, Lady Adela, and Mervyn Spink, his butler who also happens to be his rival in love.

Pongo Twistleton is in a state of financial embarrassment, again. Uncle Fred, meanwhile, has been asked to foil a plot to steal a pig. Along with Polly Pott, they form a deputation to Blandings Castle, bent of doing a bit of good.

If Lord Ickenham had not dislodged the hat of Beefy Bastable with a well-aimed Brazil nut, the latter's famous legal mind might never have been stimulated to literature. But the incident provoked Beefy to write an expose of the younger generation.

These are strange times from the English aristocracy. When hard-up William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, otherwise known as Bill, sets off for America to make a fortune, he does not expect to be left one by an American millionaire with whom he strikes up a passing acquaintance.

Bertie Wooster downs a quick cocktail and the effect is magical; he feels he can take on anyone. Unfortunately Stilton Cheesewright is threatening to tear him apart and Dutch courage might not be enough as the crisis dawns!

Having dispatched Aunt Agatha's young son Thos to his seaside borstal, Bertie Wooster intends to pay a visit to Deverill Hall to lend a hand with the village entertainment while impersonating Gussie Fink-Nottle. He soon ends up in a fix.