# Something New — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Something New by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/i.md): Ashe Marson, a struggling writer of detective stories for the British Pluck Library, is interrupted while trying to write 'The Adventure of the Wand of Death' by his neighbor Joan Valentine, who apologizes for laughing a
- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/ii.md): Freddie Threepwood, recently engaged to Aline Peters, confides in his friend R. Jones about a past romantic entanglement with a chorus girl named Joan Valentine, to whom he wrote letters and poetry that could jeopardize 
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/iii.md): Aline Peters and Joan Valentine discuss Joan's plan to pose as Aline's lady's maid to steal the scarab from Blandings Castle. Joan convinces a reluctant Aline, revealing she has worked as a lady's maid before. Later, Geo
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/iv.md): Ashe Marson accepts a dangerous and delicate job from Mr. J. Preston Peters to recover a stolen scarab, for a reward of one thousand pounds. He then informs Joan Valentine of his new position as a valet, only to discover
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/v.md): Ashe and Joan arrive at Blandings Castle and are greeted by the staff. Ashe meets Beach, the butler, and later joins the servants' hall for dinner, where a conversation reveals that Freddie Threepwood once wrote passiona

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- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [Chapter IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [The Missing Scarab](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/x.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/xii.md)

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