#intersecting with Jeeves' very important deduction plots

[peri-hellion]

So I've been watching Poirot reruns (returning to the primordial comfort media in the wake of the implosion of the US) and S1 Poirot and Hastings always struck me as vaguely Jooster-y, in a post WWII we swap narrative positions way (obviously this is because they're both variations of ACD's Holmes and Watson, but go with me here). I'd love to write a post-WWII Jeeves and Wooster in which Jeeves sets up shop as a private detective (on the back of his network/reputation as a war intelligence officer and probably because he had some sort of blowout with his governmental superiors) and Bertie is just kind of his aristocratic hanger-on who is steamrolling over the "can we be friends even though you're no longer my employee" question by just showing up everywhere. There's something about the way Suchet portrays Poirot's fussiness and kindness that melds with how I always imagined a postwar Jeeves who still has rigorous standards while also struggling with the inequity of his history of service (foreign and domestic).