Thrillers, Crime Fiction, Business, Work, & Money - Fiction, Character Types - Fiction
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Overview
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?
Synopsis
Virginia Woolley was determined to improve her lot in life by taking on the airs and graces of the middle classes, and by doing so, she managed to snare herself a rich husband. But why stop there? A husband gained can easily be lost in, say, a tragic swimming accident. Once a wealthy widow, she would be free to marry for even more money...and while she is married to husband number two Virginia meets the young and naive Christopher Elms, who believes they'll have a rosy future together. Will the black widow be caught in a web of her own making?Book Details
Published
June 1, 2006
Publisher
Magna Large Print Books
Pages
309
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780750525299