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Percy Piggott, a Lancashire window cleaner, will inherit a multi-million fortune providing that he spends a million quickly. His attempts to spend his money in New York get him involved with the production of a musical comedy, the stock market and the race track all of which against the odds, insist on making him a profit. Even the shady banker Van Norden and his seductive daughter fail to separate Percy from his money or from his uncomprehending girlfriend Sally. On a South Sea island, Percy succeeds in smashing up and salvaging at great expense a yacht while personal conflicts fly in all directions but, finally he manages to get rid of the last dollars just in time for the fatal hour and everything ends happily.

- 5 women, 13 men

Zip Goes A Million

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      Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/30/2019 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780573096051, 978-0573096051
      ISBN10: 0573096058

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      Book Synopsis

      Percy Piggott, a Lancashire window cleaner, will inherit a multi-million fortune providing that he spends a million quickly. His attempts to spend his money in New York get him involved with the production of a musical comedy, the stock market and the race track all of which against the odds, insist on making him a profit. Even the shady banker Van Norden and his seductive daughter fail to separate Percy from his money or from his uncomprehending girlfriend Sally. On a South Sea island, Percy succeeds in smashing up and salvaging at great expense a yacht while personal conflicts fly in all directions but, finally he manages to get rid of the last dollars just in time for the fatal hour and everything ends happily.

      - 5 women, 13 men

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