Fate, however, has thrown a spanner in the works, in the form of Amelia's mother, Lady Bassett, a well-known big game hunter and explorer, who objects to an interior decorator as a son-in-law, preferring that Amelia marry Lester Mapledurham ("pronounced 'Mum'"), another well-known big game hunter and explorer.
The plot twists and turns (and thickens) but Cyril wins Amelia in the end, thanks to a wandering copy of the new Inspector Mould mystery, Strychnine in the Soup.
[8] The story was collected in the 1960 book The Most of P. G. Wodehouse, published in October 1960 by Simon and Schuster, New York.
[9] It was also included in Wodehouse on Crime, edited by D. R. Bensen and published by Ticknor & Fields, New York, in 1981.
[11] A BBC TV adaptation of the story aired on 9 April 1976 as part of the Wodehouse Playhouse series.