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{{Short description|1923 novel by P. G. Wodehouse}}
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| name         = Leave It to Psmith
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| translator   =
| image        = File:LeaveItToPsmith.jpg
| caption      = First edition (UK)
| author       = [[P. G. Wodehouse]]
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| language     = English
| country      = United Kingdom
| genre        = [[Comic novel]]
| publisher    = [[Herbert Jenkins Ltd|Herbert Jenkins]] (UK)<br />[[George H. Doran]] (US)
| release_date = 30 November 1923 (UK)<br />14 March 1924 (US)
| media_type   = Print (hardcover)
| pages        = 327 pp
| preceded_by  = [[Psmith, Journalist]] (Psmith), [[Something Fresh]] (Blandings)
| followed_by  = [[Blandings Castle and Elsewhere]] (shorts), [[Summer Lightning]] (novel)
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'''''Leave It to Psmith''''' is a [[comic novel]] by English author [[P. G. Wodehouse]], first published in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1923 by [[Herbert Jenkins Ltd|Herbert Jenkins]], [[London]], England, and in the United States on 14 March 1924 by [[George H. Doran]], [[New York City|New York]].<ref name=McIl>McIlvaine, E., Sherby, L.S. and Heineman, J.H. (1990) ''P. G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist''. New York: James H. Heineman, pp. 44–45. {{ISBN|087008125X}}</ref> It had previously been serialised, in the ''[[The Saturday Evening Post|Saturday Evening Post]]'' in the US between 3 February and 24 March 1923, and in the ''[[Grand Magazine]]'' in the UK between April and December that year; the ending of this magazine version was rewritten for the book form.

It was the fourth and final novel featuring [[Psmith]], the others being ''[[Mike (novel)|Mike]]'' (1909) (later republished in two parts, with Psmith appearing in the second, ''Mike and Psmith'' (1953)), ''[[Psmith in the City]]'' (1910), and ''[[Psmith, Journalist]]'' (1915) – in his introduction to the omnibus ''The World of Psmith'', Wodehouse said that he had stopped writing about the character because he couldn't think of any more stories. It was also the second novel set at [[Blandings Castle]], the first being ''[[Something Fresh]]'' (1915). The Blandings saga would be continued in many more novels and [[Short story|shorts]].

The book is dedicated to his step-daughter Leonora Wodehouse, referred to as "Queen of her species".<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60067/60067-h/60067-h.htm Dedication]</ref>