Three Men and a Maid

The ocean liner bound for England carries more chaos than passengers. At its center is Billie Bennet, a red-haired dynamo whose mere presence launches poems, pratfalls, and at least one man to brandish a revolver in a suit of armor. She's engaged to Eustace Hignett, a poet so delicately sensible that he's already composing elegies for his failed engagements. Then there's Sam Marlowe, Eustace's dashingly dim cousin, who spots Billie and loses all composure. Bream Mortimer has loved Billie for years but cannot seem to express it without a bulldog intervening. And somewhere in the chaos lurks Jane Hubbard, who travels with an elephant gun and unshakeable devotion to the poet. Wodehouse orchestrates this collision of crushes and confusion with the precision of a Swiss watch and the sanity of a maypole. The result is friction, laughter, and the particular kind of romantic chaos that only makes perfect sense.