Frozen Assets (novel)
First UK edition | |
| Author | P. G. Wodehouse |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Comic novel |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster, Inc. (US) Herbert Jenkins (UK) |
Publication date | 14 July 1964 (US) 14 August 1964 (UK) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 978-1-84159-165-0 |
| OCLC | 403466603 |
Frozen Assets is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 14 July 1964 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the title Biffen's Millions, and in the United Kingdom on 14 August 1964 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
Set in the publishing world, Frozen Assets is a romantic comedy revolving around English editor Jerry Shoesmith, who falls in love with American journalist Kay Christopher and must keep his friend, Kay's irresponsible brother Biff, out of trouble.
The story features the recurring Wodehouse characters publishing magnate Lord Tilbury and his devious lackey Percy Pilbeam. Minor characters include movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn, who appears in two Monty Bodkin novels as well as Bachelors Anonymous, and the solicitor John Shoesmith, from Money in the Bank and Ice in the Bedroom. Tilbury's niece Linda Rome works for Leonard Gish of Something Fishy.