Hot Water

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This article is about the P.G. Wodehouse novel. For a list of films with this name, see Hot Water (film). For the Jimmy Buffett album, see Hot Water (album).

Hot Water is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published on August 17, 1932, in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Doubleday Doran, New York.

The story takes place at the Chateau Blissac, Brittany, and recounts the various romantic and criminal goings-on there during a house party, hosted by the Vicomte Blissac. It contains a mixture of romance, intrigue and Wodehouse's brand of humour.

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The story's central character is Packy Franklyn, an American millionaire and sportsman. He is engaged to Lady Beatrice Bracken and is staying in England. A chance meeting with the great Dry legislator, Senator Ambrose Opal, leads to all hell breaking loose when a letter written by the Senator to his bootlegger is used as a tool for blackmail. The book also features Gordon "Oily" Carlisle and Gertie, who reappears in the book Cocktail Time, as well as Soup Slattery and Jane Opal.