Ring for Jeeves features one of Wodehouse's best-known characters Jeeves. It is the only Jeeves novel in which his employer Bertie Wooster does not appear (though he is mentioned). Wodehouse adapted the story from a play Come On Jeeves that he had written with his lifelong friend and collaborator Guy Bolton. The story opens with Jeeves's employer Bertie Wooster having enrolled in a school that teaches the idle rich how to fend for themselves. In his absence he has allowed Jeeves to offer his services to William "Bill" Rowcester the impoverished 9th Earl of Rowcester whose stately home Rowcester Abbey is an encumbrance for which the Earl is seeking a buyer. Jeeves becomes embroiled in a complicated affair involving 'fake' bookies stolen gems a wealthy American widow and a big game hunter but as in all Jeeves novels the imperturbable valet succeeds in resolving matters to the satisfaction of all parties.
