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Title: Green Ice by Adina
Fandom: Jeeves and Wooster/Lord Peter Wimsey
Pairing: gen
Categories: crossover, mystery, drama, humor, amnesia (but not the way you'd expect)
Length: Long (~15,000 words)
Warnings: n/a

Author on LJ: n/a?
Website: n/a

Review:
Bertie gets a summons from Aunt Dahlia to visit Brinkley Court and makes haste to get to Anatole's cooking comply. Only when he arrives, Aunt Dahlia denies ever sending the summons. Even more baffling, the next day an expensive set of emeralds goes missing. Bertie's the prime suspect (natch) so it's a good thing Lord Peter Wimsey is there to look into the matter. If only Lord Peter didn't keep referring to Bertie as Captain Wooster...

Wow. I mean, wow. Until I read this fic, I never imaged that someone could somehow find a way to place the fluffy, fairytaleseque world of Jeeves and Wooster into the real world of the time, when world wars were cutting a swath through the young men of England and there was a real fear that England would be invaded and conquered. Yet not only does Adina pull this miracle off, she manages to do so while writing in perfect Wodehousian language and providing an intriguing theory behind Bertie's amusing-but-bordering-on-negligible personality. Bertie himself is marvelous in this fic -- flighty, flaky, and wonderfully loveable, and yet with the occasional hint that something deeper (and darker) is running just beneath the surface. The mystery is also an entertaining one and though the ending is just a smidgeon abrupt, that's more than made up for by the wonderful characterizations and plot that came before.

Even if you (like me) know nothing at all about Lord Peter Wimsey, you should give this one a try. You'll never look at Jeeves and Wooster quite the same way again.

Green Ice