num_pages: 256
description: Frederick, fifth Earl of Ickenham, is not the man to run away from other people's romantic problems, not even faces with the tangled relationships of his godson, Johnny, Johnny's girlfriend, Belinda, butler Albert Peasemarch and Peasemarch's beloved, Phoebe, who happens to be the sister of his employer, bad tempered Sir Raymond "Beefy" Bastable. Sir Raymond is himself in pursuit of Barbara Crowe. Everything turns on the fate of the script for a film called Cocktail Time by Bastable's nephew, Cosmo Wisdom- but just to stir the mixture a little further, Wodehouse throws in American con artist Oily Carlisle. Now read on...
language: English
title: Cocktail Time
titlecomplete: Cocktail Time
characters: Albert Peasemarch, Egbert, Belinda Farringdon, Cyril Grooly, Coggs, Howard Saxby, Rupert Morrison, Mrs. Keating, Barmy Phipps, Marlene, Norbury-Smith, Gertrude Carlisle, Barbara Crowe, Gordon Carlisle, Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, Pongo Twistleton, Benjy, Jonathan Twistleton Pearce, Bates, Mr. Prestwick, Arthur Popworth, Nannie Bruce, Augustus Popgood, Raymond Bastable, Phoebe Wisdom, Cosmo Wisdom
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2394
places: England
series: The Drones Club, Uncle Fred
publisher: Everyman's Library