Leave it to Psmith

Leave it to Psmith

First edition (UK)
Author	P. G. Wodehouse
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Comic novel
Publisher	Herbert Jenkins (UK) George H. Doran (US)
Publication date	30 November 1923 (UK) 14 March 1924 (US)
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	327 pp
Preceded by	Psmith, Journalist (Psmith), Something Fresh (Blandings)
Followed by	Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (shorts), Summer Lightning (novel)

Leave it to Psmith is a comic novel by English author P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1923 by Herbert Jenkins, London, England and in the United States on 14 March 1924 by George H. Doran, New York. It had previously been serialised, in the Saturday Evening Post in the US between 3 February and 24 March 1923, and in the Grand Magazine in the UK between April and December that year; the ending of this magazine version was rewritten for the book form.

It was the fourth and final novel featuring Psmith, the others being Mike (1909) (later republished in two parts, with Psmith appearing in the second, Mike and Psmith (1953)), Psmith in the City (1910), and Psmith, Journalist (1915) – in his introduction to the omnibus The World of Psmith, Wodehouse said that he had stopped writing about the character because he couldn't think of any more stories.

It was also the second novel set at Blandings Castle, the first being Something Fresh (1915). The Blandings saga would be continued in many more novels and shorts.

The story was adapted into a play by Wodehouse and Ian Hay, which first played at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London from 27 September 1930 and ran for 156 performances. An Indian television serial called Isi Bahane was based on the same novel.

Although the main character is Psmith (here called Ronald Eustace rather than Rupert as in previous books), the bulk of the story takes place at Blandings Castle and involves various intrigues within the extended family of Lord Emsworth, the absent-minded elderly Earl.