The Trophy Wife
The Trophy Wife by Peter Turnbull, published by Allison & Busby in 2005, is a mystery novel that delves into the complexities of love, betrayal, and greed. The story centers around Virginia Woolley, who stands to inherit eight million pounds upon the death of her much older husband, Maurice. As Maurice drowns his sorrows in whisky, Virginia finds herself entangled in a web of infidelity and deceit, leading her to a young landscape architect, Christopher Elms, who becomes infatuated with her and proposes a deadly solution to her marital woes.
Readers will find a narrative that explores the lengths to which individuals will go for wealth and freedom. The plot thickens as Christopher’s obsession with Virginia leads him to contemplate murder, prompting a team of detectives to investigate the case with the assistance of Maurice’s sister, who harbors her own suspicions about Virginia. This edition, comprising 197 pages, presents a traditional mystery that examines themes of ambition and moral ambiguity, inviting readers to ponder the consequences of Virginia’s actions and the fate that awaits her.
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Virginia Woolley stands to inherit eight million pounds upon her husband’s death. Her husband, Maurice thirty years her elder, drowns his unhappy knowledge of his wife’s infidelity in bottles of whisky, waiting for his life to draw to an uneventful close. Like with her other marriages, Virginia must do something about her situation. Virginia meets a young landscape architect who, out of work, has no means to support himself other than the dole. Christopher Elms finds himself falling in love with the wealthy seductress, to the point where he insists that in order to stay with Virginia, he must kill her husband. A team of highly skilled detectives takes up the murder case, with the help of Maurice Woolley’s sister, whose suspicions of Virginia were strong from the start. Are Virginia’s carefully laid-out plans enough to free her from her husband, and place Christopher in jail, letting this black widow off with another easy fortune?
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