Bachelors Anonymous by P G Wodehouse
A writer's voice is a powerful thing. Amongst the prolific ones, the voice is like a beacon, guiding readers towards the end of the book, not letting the readers' interest flag through repetitive and sometimes scarcely believable plotlines. For the discerning reader, it also helps in separating the wheat from the chaff in the writer's oeuvre. Bachelors Anonymous is one such novel that anyone somewhat familiar with Wodehouse's writing will file like struggle to call it among his good ones for it is his voice and charm that sees readers through the end. You get a vague sense of characters' lives, shared love and fortunes before they all dissolve into a happily ever after. They do however keep bumping into each other as clumsily and as regularly as an old man and the nook of the table. The detective assigned to look after you is betrothed to the philanderer with whom you were once engaged; you are led to this detective by a solicitor who is a dear friend of the pl