A Pelican At Blandings forms part of the Blandings Castle saga, being the tenth
full-length novel to be set there, the last one fully completed by Wodehouse.
The title refers to Galahad Threepwood, survivor of the notorious Pelican Club.
Blandings Castle lacks its usual balm for the Earl of Emsworth, as his stern
sister Lady Constance Keeble is once more in residence. The Duke of Dunstable is
also infesting the place again, along with the standard quota of American
millionaires, romantic youths, con artists, imposters and so on. With a painting
of reclining nude at the centre of numerous intrigues, Gally's genius is once
again required