P.G. Wodehouse's "The Crime Wave at Blandings"

PG Wodehouse's first crime novel or short story?  Well, not exactly.  But what it is (again and again) is Wodehouse's genius in conveying a small world and expanding that world to the reader in such a hysterical manner.  I started reading this book on the plane trip to Los Angeles, and now just finished reading it.  Even in my jet-lag position, I can see his world makes some sort of sense.  But Wodehouse is such a brilliant writer.  His sentence structures are incredible, and the way he just piles one narrative after another - really he must be the original figure for the screw-ball comedy.  Boris Vian loved his work, and so do I!