Money in the Bank

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

Wodehouse wrote much of Money in the Bank (1942) while interned by the Germans during World War II. George, sixth Viscount Uffenham, has hidden the family jewels somewhere at Shipley Hall and forgotten where. The house has been let to a forceful woman running a health retreat, and Uffenham stays on as butler. Jeff Miller, a young barrister in love with Uffenham's niece Anne, joins the hunt, and so do the crooks Soapy and Dolly Molloy.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “P. G. Wodehouse. I’ve read almost everything he wrote. He once explained that there were two ways of writing novels. “One is mine, making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down deep into life and not caring a damn.” He did the former better than almost anyone.”