Monty Bodkin, whom we have met first in Heavy Weather, is, not surprisingly, the hero of this 1935 hilarious work by Wodehouse. Bulk of the story happens aboard RMS Atlantic as she voyages from Southampton to New York. If I could have a dime for each time Getrude Butterwick gives the raspberry to Monty as the ship sails across the Atlantic, I would be rich. Such is her disposition, finding Monty in seemingly compromising situations with Lottie Blossom. Gertrude, naturally, is betrothed to Monty, and Lottie is a beautiful red-haired girl, popular in silver screen as a movie actress.

Hollywood movie magnate, Ikey Llewelyn, forced to contend with smuggling a diamond necklace into America, his sister-in-law Mabel Spence, and the Tennyson brothers, Ambrose and Reggie feature in Luck of the Bodkins. The icing on the cake, without doubt, is the loquacious, but hard at spelling, Albert Peasemarch, the steward aboard RMS Atlantic.

The intricately woven plot is untangled in American soil, for a happy ending for everyone, except, perhaps Ikey who finds himself in his employment three more men than he would have wanted.