Blandings Castle is in turmoil, and there are plenty of reasons. Lord Emsworth’s younger brother, Galahad Tripwood, is writing memoirs, and English aristocrats are in panic.
No one knows which facts from their stormy youth the upstart writer has remembered, or what this could all turn into. To make matters worse, the Empress has been kidnapped, a prize-winning pig is missing, and Clarence, the all-consuming passion of it all—the ninth Earl of Emsworth, better known simply as Lord Emsworth—is involved too.
Since the castle is full of impostors and deceivers, how will the earl figure out what lies behind the disappearance of the castle’s most valuable inhabitant? Everyone comes under suspicion—from Rupert Baxter’s secretary to Sir Gregory Parslow, who has long been competing with Lord Emsworth for local fame in the world of pig-breeding.