Uneasy Money

When he quite unexpectedly inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire whose golf swing he corrected, the impoverished Lord Dawlish (Bill to his friends) sets off for that land of opportunity: America. There he hopes to find the dead man’s surviving relatives: a beautiful beekeeper and her brother. His plan: to return to them what he considers to be their rightful inheritance. Unbeknownst to Bill, his quarrelsome fiancée is also traveling to America, albeit on a mission all of her own. 

A comedy of errors and misunderstandings and rifts healed all in good time, Uneasy Money shows Wodehouse, in fine form even this early on in his career, assembling and disassembling a tangle of assumed identities, bees, broken engagements, monkeys, and burglaries.

Paperback. 222 pages.