The white monkey

Summary: The white monkey is the fourth of the nine novels in The Forsyte chronicles. In this new chapter, Fleur and Michael Mont begin to question their marriage when their good friend, author Wilfred Desert, can no longer contain his passion for Fleur. Fleur finds herself torn between her love for Michael and passion for Wilfred. Meanwhile, Soames Forsyte, as a director of the Providential Premium Reassurance Society, must root out the rumored indiscretions of a manager's dubious dealings with the Germans. The whole while, he is haunted by a painting of a white monkey with rinds of crushed fruit flung about it and eyes searching for something more. Often incorrectly called The Forsyte saga, the nine-novel sequence properly known as The Forsyte chronicles contains three trilogies of which the first trilogy is The Forsyte saga (The man of property -- In Chancery -- To let). The second trilogy, A modern comedy (The white monkey -- The silver spoon -- Swan song) is followed by the third and concluding trilogy, End of the chapter (Maid in waiting -- Flowering wilderness -- One more river).