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Synopsis
Situated as it was in a prosperous county
town, Bond's Bank had long enjoyed the respectful confidence of
its clients. But when Mike inherited the Bank from his late
uncle, Sir Hugo, he was shocked to find that, thanks to the
prodigal benevolence of his predecessor, the Bank was many
thousands short in the kitty. Time was needed to make up the
defalcations, but, as ill luck would have it, the Bank Examiners
were due immediately to go over the Bank's books. The prospect
of gaol loomed large. "Unless", said Mike desperately, "some
kindly burglar takes it into his head to burgle the bank before
the Examiners arrive, I'm for it."
It was with no such altruistic thought that, coincidentally,
Horace the gentlemanly gangster, had indeed planned such an
enterprise, but strictly for the benefit of himself and his
deserving colleagues, Ferdie the Fly, and Basher, the safe
expert. To further his plans, Horace took a job as butler to the
Bond residence where, inspired by her superlative cooking, he
fell in love with Ada, Mike's secretary; and as with other
ardent lovers before him, the pure flame of love changed his
motives�if not his intentions. And all might have been well, but
for the well-meant endeavours of Jill, Mike's sprightly fiancee,
the intervention of Charlie the Chicago gangster and the
suspicions of Potter, the hard-faced man from Scotland Yard. All
these events, and what eventually fell out, are faithfully
chronicled in this highly diverting novel by the inimitable P.
G. Wodehouse.
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