is broke. Dolly comes up with the idea of stealing Lester's family heirlooms and claiming the insurance (the heirlooms do not legally belong to Lester, so cannot be sold). She describes the scheme as “Money for Nothing”. Lester initially attempts to steal the heirlooms himself, with disastrous results, so they rope in Chimp. Chimp is caught in the act by Hugo, but gets away. In order to get rid of Hugo, and stop him foiling their scheme again, Lester gives him and Ronnie £500 to start their nightclub (we learn in Summer Lightning that the venture is a failure). Chimp is persuaded to have another go, and this time the burglary goes smoothly, or so it seems. But Chimp has been seen and recognised by the butler, Sturgis, who informs John. John travels to Healthward Ho to confront Chimp. Dolly goes with him and puts knock-out drops into his drink when they arrive. Chimp locks John up in a room with bars on the window, but eventually John turns the tables on the conspirators, and learns to his horror that Lester is in on the plot. He dashes back to Rudge Hall and confronts his uncle. As a penance, Lester agrees to make it up with Wyvern. In the meantime, Pat, thinking that John has run off with Dolly, has accepted Hugo's proposal of marriage. When she learns of John's heroism she realises the error of her ways and sweetness and light reign. Background The setting of the novel was inspired by Hunstanton Hall, in Norfolk. Publication history In Liberty, the story was illustrated by Wallace Morgan. It was illustrated by Wilton Williams in London Calling. The illustration on the first US edition dust jacket was drawn Wallace Morgan. The UK edition is dedicated: "To Ian Hay Beith". John Hay Beith (who used the pen name Ian Hay) was a British writer who collaborated with Wodehouse on three plays, including a dramatisation of Wodehouse's novel A Damsel in Distress that opened in August 1928. References Notes Sources External links The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a full list of characters Novels by P. G. Wodehouse English novels 1928 British novels Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in British magazines Herbert Jenkins books Doubleday, Doran books British comedy novels