The Luck Stone: Pelham Wodehouse

Published under a pseudonym in the weekly magazine Chums, The Luck Stone was written very early in Wodehouse`s career when he was still trying to establish himself as a write by trying different genres. It is the solitary example of his output of what one scholar has called the `blood and thunder` adventure stories of which the youthful Wodehouse was himself an avid consumer. It even includes what must be one of the earliest fictional car crashes!