RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

It is once more a Wednesday. What are you reading? 👀

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[petrea_mitchell]

I'm now working my way through Ovidia Yu's Crown Colony murder mystery series, set in Singapore beginning in 1936. Book 1 was great. I'm now on book 2, The Betel Nut Tree Mystery, which I've been looking forward to ever since seeing the back-cover blurb, which mentions a character named Victor Glossop, and wondering if he's a reference to the Glossops of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories.

Well, I'm only a little way into this book, but we've learned that Victor is the son of Sir Roderick Glossop, which is the full name of a Wodehouse character, and he has a history of pulling pranks, including stealing a policeman's helmet, which is mentioned in the Jeeves stories as the sort of thing Bertie Wooster got up to in his slightly younger days. So yeah, I'm definitely reading the work of a fellow Wodehouse fan.