Publisher's Synopsis
Uneasy Money by P. G. Wodehouse
Uneasy Money is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on March 17, 1916 by D. Appleton & Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom on October 4, 1917 by Methuen & Co., London. The story had previously been serialized in the United States in the December 1915 Saturday Evening Post and in the United Kingdom in the Strand Magazine starting in December 1916.
Taking place primarily in New York City and then rural Long Island, the story tells of lovable but tough "Bill", Lord Dawlish, who inherits a fortune from a wealthy American who once helped golf. When Bill discovers that the rich man has left nothing for his niece Elizabeth Boyd, he feels uneasy and decides to give her half of the money, even if this turns out to be unexpectedly difficult.
Some of the novel's characters and locations appear in other Wodehouse stories. Publicist Roscoe Sherriff appears in Indiscretions of Archie (1921), and young lawyer Gerald "Jerry" Nichols returns in Bachelors Anonymous (1973). The New York restaurant Reigelheimer is mentioned in the short story "The Aunt and the Sluggard" (1916), the village of Brookport appears again in Jill the Reckless (1920), and the character Claire Fenwick travels on the steamship White Star Line Atlantic, which is featured in The Girl on the Boat (1921).
