The Small Bachelor
by P. G. Wodehouse (Methuen, 1927); audiobook read by Jonathan Cecil (Chivers, 2009)
Immersed in New York culture yet without a character to provide an outsider’s perspective, Wodehouse’s usual wit and comedy of circumstance dips towards the more edgy, less comfortable humour of, say, Fawlty Towers, its intertwining of lives and problems more sequentially resolved.