num_pages: 294
description: At French seaside Château Blissac, J. Wellington Gedge from California wants to go home. His larger richer wife wants him to be a Paris Ambassador, blackmails Senator Opal, publicly dry, with a letter to his bootlegger in her safe. Jewels attract criminals tough 'Soup' Slattery and 'Oily' Carlisle, who mourn female partners here unknown. Amid confusion of assumed identities and one real undercover detective, 'Packy' Patrick Franklyn, rich ex-Yale footballer, wants Jane Opal to be happy. Jane's fiancé poor writer 'Egg' Blair Eggleston is touted by Packy's fiancée culture-lofty Lady Beatrice Bracken. Rakish 'Veek' Vicomte de Blissac returns for holiday festival where men drink, fight, and find love - or at least reward from safe.
language: English
title: Hot Water
titlecomplete: Hot Water
characters: Patrick B. Franklyn, J. Wellinton Gedge, Gordon Carlisle, Gertrude Carlisle, Kate Amelia Putnam, Gwendolyn Blinkhorn, Ambrose Opal, Jane Opal, Maurice de Blissac, Soup Slattery, Mabel Brewster, Beatrice Brackin, Julia Gedge, Medway, Octave, Parker, Blair Eggleston
genres: Audiobook, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Adult Fiction, Literature, Comedy, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 1940
publisher: Harry N. Abrams