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I wonder if anyone can jog my memory. I remember reading some books in my teens about the slightly humourous adventures of an upper class gentleman, Terry Thomas type character, but for the life of me I cant' recall who wrote them and what the main characters name was.
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If you're forgetting Wodehouse, delete your account.
Jeeves & Wooster, perchance?
How uncanny, the moment I pressed submit the answer popped into my head, Tom Sharpe!
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I was thinking Blandings rather than Wooster but Tom Sharpe might fit the bill
Penguin? They wrote a lot of books in that era 😜🤡
Saki 'Chronicles of Clovis'?
*edit. Ah, seems not. I'd recommend dipping yr toe in and read a few of them anyway. Supreme satire and v funny in the Wodehouse vein. Free online at Project Gutenberg etc.
Sound like PG Wodehouse.
Or you may have seen Terry Thomas in an old black and white film, School for Scoundrels (1960) where Thomas plays a typical cad, This film is based on the Gamesmanship books by Stephen Potter.
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Not mad on Tom Sharpe. Love Wodehouse.
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I quite like a bit of Frank Richards too. Can't beat the fat owl of the Remove. Well, not these days anyway.
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Tom Sharpe isn’t a silly suggestion he did a few about toffs.
my current read.. Harry Flashman or Lockheart Flawse
How about A J Raffles gentleman thief and so on, by EW Hornung? He was a sort of inverted Sherlock Holmes, living the high life while thriving on his cricketing ability and daring robberies with his sidekick Bunny?
Maybe Lord Peter Wimsey, by Dorothy Sayers?
Tom Sharpe isn’t a silly suggestion
It wasn't so much a suggestion as the OP answering his own question.
Loved Tom Sharpe's South African books but when I read them apartheid had a few years left to run
Mary Tourtal wrote the "Rupert the Bear" books ....I never progressed to grown up Class based humour
Not thinking of Dornford Yates are you? - wrote the Chandos and Berry & Co books. What PG Wodehouse might have written if he'd had a bad time in the trenches.
They were forever dashing round Europe foiling dastardly plots by swarthy foreigners - Lines like "Through the night to Rolls thundered across Europe. Bats were dashed to pieces on the gleaming radiator" They have been described as snobbery with violence. Definitely not on school reading lists these days.