Money in the Bank

Author: Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)Year: 1946Publisher: Herbert Jenkins, LtdPlace: LondonDescription:253+[2ad] pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's gray cloth with brown lettering to cover and spine in original pictorial jacket. (APG indicates that an orange color is called for. This may be a variant binding). First British edition.Money in the Bank is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 9 January 1942 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 27 May 1946 by Herbert Jenkins, London. The UK publication was delayed while Wodehouse was under suspicion of collaboration during World War II. A peer of original ideas, George, sixth Viscount Uffenham, had converted his own and his niece's fortune into diamonds and ingeniously hidden them at Shipley Hall, the ancestral seat. Unfortunately, an accident, due to his opposition to the convention of driving a car on the left, had impaired his memory and, se