Winston Graham's The Merciless Ladies is a fictional biography set in the 1920s.
Paul Stafford - a brilliant artist, from a home where success is all-important. His dazzling talent shot him to the heights of London.
Olive Crayam - Paul's wife, and a woman destroyed by jealousy of her husband's talent, and his growing social success.
Diana Marnsett - a young society beauty, and the woman behind Paul's climb to fame.
But the price of success comes high, and Paul's decision to retreat from fame stirs the muddy waters of scandal into a dangerously lethal brew . . .
- ISBN10 0370302370
- ISBN13 9780370302379
- Publish Date 4 October 1979
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 July 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint The Bodley Head Ltd
- Edition Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 361
- Language English