indeedsir_backup | Damned obsessed slasher demands timelines and story titles. (Reply)

So, I used the link to this post which

puple_pen provided, and began to read Extricating Young Gussie, expecting, of course, that this would be our much beloved Gussie Fink-Nottle. Far from it! This is Bertie's 'cousin,' Gussie Mannering-Phipps. But, wait, what sort of cousin is this?

She [Agatha] bosses her husband, Spencer Gregson, a battered little chappie on the Stock Exchange. She bosses my cousin, Gussie Mannering-Phipps. She bosses her sister-in-law, Gussie's mother.

His mother is Bertie's Aunt's husband's sister. Isn't there some sort of a rule that if you need to use more than two apostrophe 's'es used in describing someone's relationship it's okay to marry them? This would be cousins by marriage only, in no way blood-related. In fact, 'cousin' seems often to be used as a catch-all phrase which Bertie uses to indicate some vague sort of familial connection.

And then I began to think too hard about the question of Florence Craye, who I remembered being called Bertie's cousin. I distinctly recall reading that story, wherein Bertie refers to her as a cousin, greets her with "Darling!" and an attempt at a hug, because he likes her quite well even if he doesn't want her to mould him. And he takes her out to a club which gets raided, and trips a police officer who is chasing her so that she can get away. Please please please tell me I'm not mixing fanon with canon, because now I can't find that damned story, and it was upon his hugginess and use of 'darling' that I based his demonstrably affectionate nature in "Absence of Madeline." Which story is it?

So, I went back to the inestimable

innocentsmith's comment to refresh my memory, and found:

Isn't Lord Worplesdon Florence's father? Percy Craye, the somethingth Earl of Worplesdon, who later marries Aunt Agatha.

Sooo... at some point Spenser Gregson needs to die, or divorce Agatha, and she has to begin being referred to as Mrs. Percy Craye.

Has anyone ever tried to compile a timeline of where the stories belong in relation to each other? I know I have some huge, gaping holes in my knowledge, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for.