From Winston Graham, the acclaimed author of Marnie and the Poldark series, comes Take My Life, a detective novel set in the world of music and opera.
Why does disaster so often follow success?
This is the question that Philippa Talbot asks herself repeatedly in the dark days that follow her triumph at Covent Garden.
On that evening she sees her husband in conversation with Elizabeth Rusman, a young violinist from the orchestra. She discovers that they were once lovers, and she and Nicholas have a jealous quarrel.
But by morning Elizabeth is dead and Nicholas in custody, accused of her murder. As the evidence builds up against him, Philippa begins the fight to prove his innocence - a fight which gradually exposes her to terrible danger . . .
- ISBN10 0006171486
- ISBN13 9780006171485
- Publish Date 25 April 1985 (first published August 1965)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 August 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Fontana Press
- Format Paperback
- Language English