When the English writer and humorist P.G. “Plum” Wodehouse died 50 years ago this month, most would be forgiven for believing that his death took place at some grand English country house, not unlike ...

He worked at a bank but disliked the job, so he quit. He turned to writing light fiction, a decision that proved to be fortuitous: His short stories and novels were so good that he became one of the ...

QUICK SERVICE—P. G. Wodehouse—Doubleday, Doran ($2). Few noises are more thrilling than the shrieks of pleasure with which non-stop readers of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse sometimes curdle the late ...