"The Crime Wave at Blandings" was rewritten from "Creatures of Impulse" and was published more than twenty years after the original story. "The Crime Wave at Blandings" was published in October 1936 in two parts in the Saturday Evening Post, with illustrations by Charles LaSalle. It was published in The Strand Magazine in January 1937, with illustrations by Gilbert Wilkinson. The story was collected in The Best of Wodehouse, a 1949 collection of Wodehouse stories selected by Scott Meredith, published in the US by Pocket Books. It was included in the 1981 collection Wodehouse on Crime, published by Ticknor & Fields in the US and edited by D. R. Bensen with a foreword by Isaac Asimov. The UK anthology In Praise of Humour, published by Muller in 1949 and edited by Neville Hilditch, included an excerpt from "The Crime Wave at Blandings". Adaptations A radio dramatisation of "The Crime Wave at Blandings" aired in 1939, with C. V. France as Lord Emsworth, Thea Holme as Jane, J. B. Rowe as Beach, Gladys Young as Lady Constance, Carleton Hobbs as Rupert Baxter, and Robert Holland as George. It was produced by John Cheatle. "The Crime Wave at Blandings" was adapted for television as an episode of The World of Wodehouse in 1967, under the title "Lord Emsworth and the Crime Wave at Blandings". In 1985, the story was adapted into two episodes of the Blandings radio series. "The Crime Wave at Blandings" was adapted for television again in 2013, as the fourth episode in the series Blandings. See also List of Wodehouse's Blandings shorts Complete list of the Blandings books References Notes Sources External links Short stories by P. G. Wodehouse 1936 short stories Works originally published in The Saturday Evening Post Pigs in literature