sentences:  The illustration on the first UK edition dust jacket was by Frank Ford.According to Richard Usborne's book "Wodehouse at Work to the End", Wodehouse adapted "Spring Fever" into a play for Edward Everett Horton with an American setting and characters.Horton was unable to use the play because of other commitments, so Wodehouse turned the play into a new novel, "The Old Reliable" (1951).