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Wodehouse was always careful for a credible background to his characters. Spode, based on Mosley, was exposed for his ownership of
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It isn't to Bertie that Spode reveals he sold the business, but to Dahlia. Bertie only finds out about that later when Dahlia tells him about it and how she solved the problem by discovering the cosh Bertie dropped by the safe.
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Suffolk shall produce their handles." In spite of this, Spode is less grotesque than Mrs Bingo Little's caricature of him as the wholly unbelievable 'Sir Oswald Mosley.'
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