Uneasy Money is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The story doesn't include any of Wodehouse's regular characters or settings, instead it tells of amiable, kindly but hard-up Lord "Bill" Dawlish, golf lover, and his adventures in romance, golf and the theatre.


Plot

William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish, is hard-up for money. When he is unexpectedly bequeathed a million pounds by an American he once helped at golf, and furthermore learns that the millionaire left his niece and nephew only twenty pounds, he is uneasy. He endeavours to approach them (in then-rural Long Island) and see if he can fix up something, like giving them half the inheritance. He discovers that it can be difficult to give money away...

Also features engagements being broken off and renewed anew, love, bee-keeping, and a monkey. (wikipedia.org)