Oswald Thake - Eton-educated, eligible, and sharing more than a few genes with Bertie Wooster - has travelled to America and then Europe. In his letters home, he describes his many travails at the hands of the con-artists, floozies and desperate widows who follow him wherever he goes.

A collection of pieces from J.B. Morton's humorous Beachcomber column in The Daily Express, from the period between 1958 and 1975. The legendary characters featured include the mad scientist Dr Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, and the perpetually perplexed Mr Justice Cocklecarrot.