Book jacket discolored Pages starting to yellow with age Random House, 1967 book club edition, 469 pages Other People's Money begins in 1915, when Victor's parents are killed and he, age three, is installed as a step-member of the Weld family in their lavish home on Stuyvesant Square in New York. When, several years later, Philip is orphaned , he too is taken under the Weld roof. And so both boys grow up as near-brothers to Harriet Weld, the girl around whom the drama of their totally different ambitions is to be played out. Philip seems to want fame; Victor seems to be seeking wealth. And Harriet, who loves only one, is forced to follow both. In the end she, like the reader, must decide which of the two men is the true "hero."