By the end of morning school, it was generally known that a gang of desperados...had taken the Pavilion down, brick by brickýWhen the silver sports trophies disappear from the cricket pavilion at St Austinýs, the scene is set for a school full of characters to indulge in some desperately inventive detection. And when one of the boys is (wrongly) accused of the crime, he realizes he must produce the real villain to clear both his name and that of the school. In this early work, P.G. Wodehouse is already mixing all our favourite ingredients for a result that is fast, thrilling and very funny.