“BEST SELLER”has some claims to being the funniest short story that ‘‘Best P.G. Wodehouse ever wrote. In it a girl named Evangeline Pembury, greatly to her own surprise and that of her fiancé Egbert Mulliner, produces a best-selling novel entitled Parted Ways.
On the strength of this she acquires a suave and Byronic-looking literary agent named Jno. Henderson Banks, who addresses her as “Dear lady” and fixes up a string of lucrative commissions which it is beyond her ability to fulfil. Asked by an increasingly disgruntled
