Blandings Castle is in turmoil, and there are many reasons for it. The younger brother of Lord Emsworth, Galahad Threepwood, is writing memoirs, and English aristocrats are in panic. No one knows which facts from his wild youth the newly turned writer has remembered—or what this could all lead to.
In addition, the Empress is kidnapped, the prize-winning pig, and Clarence’s all-consuming passion—Clarence, the ninth Earl of Emsworth, better known as Lord Emsworth.
Considering that the castle is full of impostors and deceivers, how will the earl find out what’s really behind the disappearance of the castle’s most valuable resident? 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 pig-breeding business.