Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) is the second novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the unflappable character of Reginald Jeeves, valet to ditsy British aristocrat Bertie Wooster.  Set mostly at Brinkley Court, the English country home of Bertie’s Aunt Dahlia (and the title of the U.S. edition), the story centers on a pair of romantic pairings, the first involving Bertie’s nerdy friend Gussie Fink-Nottle and the goofy Madeline Bassett, and the second his cousin Angela and chubby athlete Tuppy Glossup.  Things are set in motion when Bertie visits to comfort his aunt after his cousin breaks her engagement with Tuppy, and discovers that she has lost considerable sums at the gaming tables at Cannes, which threatens her ability to finance her magazine, Milady’s Boudoir. Bertie dispenses questionable advice to all parties, things unravel in classic screwball comedy style, and at the height of the chaos Bertie throws in the towel and calls on Jeeves, the consummate “gentleman’s personal gentleman” and Bertie’s all-purpose guardian angel.  Jeeves manages to get Bertie out of the way for a few hours, during which time he quickly solves all the problems. The novel is considered by many to be the best in the Jeeves canon of eleven novels and is famous for its episode of a drunken Gussie presenting the prizes at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School, which appears in many collections of comic literature and is thought by some to be the funniest piece of sustained comic writing in the English language.  Parts of the story were featured in the English television series Jeeves and Wooster.

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