Hot Water

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

A French seaside resort and the Chateau Blissac are the setting of Hot Water (1932). Packy Franklyn, a wealthy American athlete, is engaged to the high-minded Lady Beatrice Bracken but is drawn into a plot to steal a letter from the safe of a visiting American senator. Crooks, impostors and couples in disguise all converge on the chateau, and Packy finds himself falling for Jane Opal, the senator's daughter.

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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.”