P. G. Wodehouse 
A Gentleman of Leisure [PDF ebook] 
Classic Humorous Fiction

In this comic novel – dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks, who starred in the stage version – Jimmy Pitt, man-about-town and former newspaper hound, takes a bet that he cannot commit burglary. He finds breaking and entering easy enough, but then discovers that he has forced his way into the home of a tough New York policeman. Naturally, Captain Mc Eachern has a beautiful daughter and problems of his own. The complications which ensue from their meeting, involving a rich cast of Wodehousean characters from both sides of the Atlantic, create one of his most amusing and light-hearted early novels.