| "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg" | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Short story by P. G. Wodehouse | |||
 1917 Saturday Evening Post illustration by Henry Raleigh | |||
| Country | United Kingdom | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Genre(s) | Comedy | ||
| Publication | |||
| Publisher | Saturday Evening Post (US) The Strand Magazine (UK) | ||
| Media type | Print (Magazine) | ||
| Publication date | 3 March 1917 (US) August 1917 (UK) | ||
| Chronology | |||
| Series | Jeeves | ||
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"Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the Saturday Evening Post in the United States on 3 March 1917, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in August 1917. The story was also included in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeves.[1]
A friend of Bertie, "Bicky" Bickersteth, gets into financial trouble in the story. Jeeves proposes a scheme to help Bicky that involves Bicky's uncle and a convention of men from Birdsburg, Missouri.
- ^ Cawthorne (2013), p. 49.