Half a century later, “The Faber Book of Treachery,” in bookstores next week, throws Wodehouse’s half-forgotten broad-Broadcast news: Wodehouse, 1928 casts in with the likes of Tokyo Rose. “A pathetic attempt to increase sales,” eries Wodehouse historian Col. Norman Murphy. Replies editor Nigel West: “Innocence versus guilt is an area I leave to the reader to explore.” The establishment eventually reached its own conclusion. Wodehouse was knighted in 1975, after 30 years of exile in New York.
