and by purchasing a valuable objet d’art for Brewster end in disaster. Further indiscretions follow for Archie: he upsets Lucille by apparently paying too much attention to an actress; he bets $1000 on the Giants (then a New York baseball team), but gets into a fight with their star pitcher and injures his arm. He advises Lucille's brother, Bill, who has a habit of getting into relationships with girls of whom his father disapproves, and lends a hand to an old comrade from the war, “The Sausage Chappie”, who's lost his memory and forgotten his own name. He upsets Mrs Cora Bates McCall, a vegetarian and healthy food campaigner, by persuading her son to take part in a pie-eating contest. Then there's an incident with a painting which further upsets Brewster. Eventually he pacifies the old curmudgeon by telling him he's about to become a grandfather. Publication history The Archie short stories published in the Strand between March 1920 and February 1921 were all illustrated by A. Wallis Mills. The stories published in Cosmopolitan between May 1920 and February 1921 were illustrated by T. D. Skidmore. In the Strand, none of the Archie stories were published in December 1920. A different Wodehouse story, "Sundered Hearts" (later collected in The Clicking of Cuthbert), was published in that issue. "Dear Old Squiffy" was also published in The Golden Book Magazine (US), illustrated by H. M. Bateman, in January 1933. The one story that was not published in Cosmopolitan, "Strange Experience of an Artist's Model", was collected in Wodehouse on Crime under the title "Indiscretions of Archie". Wodehouse on Crime was published on 14 September 1981 by Ticknor & Fields, New York, edited by D. R. Bensen with a foreword by Isaac Asimov. The novel has a long dedication to "B. W. King-Hall". Baldwin King-Hall was a friend of Wodehouse who ran a school called Emsworth House in Emsworth. Adaptations A BBC radio play titled "An Indiscretion of Archie" was broadcast in June 1931. It was performed by Pauline Bedford, Reg Palmer, Ernest Sefton, and Peter Haddon. The book was adapted under the title The Indiscretions of Archie for BBC radio by Douglas Hoare in 1935, and again featured Peter Haddon. It was produced by John Watt and aired in six parts from April to June in 1935. References Notes Sources External links The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with numerous book covers and