With his overbearing sister, Lady Constance, and the ill-tempered Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, about to descend upon Blandings Castle, Lord Elmsworth calls in his brother, Sir Galahad Threepwood, for moral support. But when Dunstable shows up with a controversial portrait of a nude woman, Blandings erupts in chaos. Every eccentric guest...
seems to want the painting, and for very different reasons—Wilbur Trout because it looks like his ex-wife, and Lord Elmsworth because it's a ringer for his pet pig! How in the world will Gally sort this mess out?