Sticky Wicket at Blandings

"Sticky Wicket at Blandings"
Short story by P. G. Wodehouse
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Comedy
Publication
PublisherPlayboy
Media typePrint (magazine)
Publication dateOctober 1966

"Sticky Wicket at Blandings" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared, under the title "First Aid for Freddie", in the United States in the October 1966 issue of Playboy magazine.[1] Part of the Blandings Castle canon, it features the absent-minded peer Lord Emsworth, and was included in the collection Plum Pie (1966).[2] It was published, under the title "First Aid for Freddie", in the United Kingdom in the April 1967 issue of Argosy, after being published in Plum Pie in the UK.[3]

  1. ^ Midkiff, Neil (3 July 2019). "The Wodehouse short stories". Madame Eulalie. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  2. ^ McIlvaine (1990), pp. 99–100, A89.
  3. ^ McIlvaine (1990), p. 165, D74.4.