When the Little Nugget, alias 13-year-old Ogden Ford, "bulgy, rude, chain-smoking son of an American millionaire," arrives at Sanstead House School, the fun begins. Mr. Peter Burns, a none-too-dedicated schoolmaster, engaged by snobbish Mr. Abney to educate his hand-picked pupils, soon finds himself and his enraptured class at the mercy of an American gunman ... and at the beginning of a series of truly mind-boggling adventures in a delicious Wodehouse...

Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are on holiday in the idyllic English village of Broadway when they stumble across the body of a man who appears to have fallen down a disused quarry. When it is revealed that the man, a local farmer, was probably pushed over the edge, and that the police have failed to find any suspects or motives for the murder, Dorothy can't help but get involved ...

Hadrian Ames, the Duke of Clayton, needs a bride. He even has the perfect one picked out. That is, until he meets the lovely, free-spirited Natalie Fanshawe. She's the opposite of what a man of his high rank should desire in a wife-an outspoken American who has never even set foot in a London ballroom. But Natalie doesn't have time to be swept off her feet by a handsome duke who must be a spoiled scoundrel like every other British lord. And she couldn't...