Blandings

The poker-wielding Duke of Dunstable threatens to have Clarence committed for pottiness, so Beach and Freddie hatch a plan to rescue him. Eggs required.

Clarence and Connie's terrifying sister Charlotte is threatening to take up residence at Blandings. Permanently. Freddie comes to the rescue with an audacious plan to steal the Empress.

Clarence must prevent his younger brother Galahad from publishing his scandalous memoirs and ruining the family name. If he fails, Connie will exile him to hellish London.

Clarence has grown an appalling beard to the dismay of Beach and Connie. Freddie needs Clarence to convince Hollywood starlet Pauline Petite of his bona fides.

Connie is trying to impress Colonel Fanshawe in the hope that Clarence might succeed Fanshawe as Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, but Beach is behaving very oddly indeed.

Lord Didcot is bullying Clarence over a fake painting, so Connie encourages him to propose to wealthy American Vanessa Polk. Galahad and Freddie have other ideas.

Clarence's bid to win the "pumpkin prize" is threatened by Connie's ambition to marry Freddie off to Sir Gregory's niece.