Big Money
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover; Overlook Press
Published: November 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781585679782
Subjects: Humorous; Fiction / Humorous; Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: On an afternoon in May, at the hour when London pauses in its labours to refresh itself with a bite of lunch, there was taking place in the coffee-room of the Drones Club in Dover Street that pleasantest of functions, a reunion of old school friends.
Description: "T. Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American financier, loves every cent of his twenty million dollars. Lady Vera Mace loves T. Paterson Frisby whose secretary, Berry Conway, loves Frisby's niece, Ann Moon. Meanwhile, Lady Vera's nephew, 'Biscuit' Biskerton, begins by loving Frisby's niece but ends by loving Frisby's niece's friend, Kitchie Valentine. At the story's conclusion everyone is happy-- except, of course, Captain Kelly and Mr. Hoke-- but only after a series of plot twists which will surprise and delight even seasoned Wodehouse fans"--Jacket.