Bunter's Last Fling

This is the thirty-eighth and final story in Cassell's Billy Bunter series, the long saga of Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School. For more than fifty years, in magazine stories, in books and on television, the world's most famous schoolboy has been getting into every conceivable kind of scrape.

In this last adventure, the fat Owl triumphs again, much more by luck than judgement, and somehow saves Vernon-Smith, the Bounder of the Remove, from a diabolical plot.

It all begins on the local station platform when Bunter is set upon by Ponsonby & Co. from Highcliffe School and incarcerated, bound and gagged, in an empty packing case. The hapless Owl can neither speak nor move but he can listen, and soon hears something very confidential indeed – a plot by the Bounder's cousin, Derek Vernon, to discredit the Bounder in his father's eyes and have the family fortune pass to Derek.

When Bunter is eventually rescued by Harry Wharton and Coker of the Fifth, no one will believe his story, but for once events prove him right and one way and another Bunter frustrates Derek's evil designs – without, of course, meaning to.

This story was originally titled Bunter to the Rescue, but as the last of the Billy Bunter series, and with the agreement of the author's family, it was given its present title.