When Navy ensign Billy Grenville, heir to a vast New York fortune, sees showgirl Ann Arden on the dance floor, it is love at first sight. And much to the horror of Alice Grenville--the indomitable family matriarch--he marries her. Ann wants desperately to be accepted by high society and become the well-bred woman of her fantasies. But a gunshot one rainy night propels Ann into a notorious spotlight--as the two Mrs. Grenvilles enter into a conspiracy of silence that will bind them together for as long as they live. . . .From the Paperback edition.
"When Navy ensign Billy Grenville, heir to a vast New York fortune, sees showgirl Ann Arden on the dance floor, it is love at first sight. And much to the horror of Alice Grenville--the indomitable family matriarch--he marries her. Ann wants desperately to be accepted by high society and become the well-bred woman of her fantasies. But a gunshot one rainy night propels Ann into a notorious spotlight--as the two Mrs. Grenvilles enter into a conspiracy of silence that will bind them together for as long as they live. . . .From the Paperback edition."@en
"Writing the story of Iris Grenville's life, Brady Campion is introduced to a beautiful woman, uncultured but determined to become a member of society's elite, who killed her husband and whose lawyers convinced a jury that she mistook him for a prowler."@en
"Writing the story of Iris Grenville's life, Brady Campion is introduced to a beautiful woman, uncultured but determined to become a member of society's elite, who killed her husband and whose lawyers convinced a jury that she mistook him for a prowler."
"Une incursion à plusieurs épisodes dans la haute société américaine à l'occasion d'un scandale (fondé sur une situation authentique) où il y a mort d'homme. Le roman de l'ambition et de l'imposture de deux femmes que désigne le titre original."
"A novel about a woman from the backwaters of Kansas who rises to the top of New York society and becomes so obsessed with her place among the beautiful people that she is willing to kill to stay there."
"A novel about a woman from the backwaters of Kansas who rises to the top of New York society and becomes so obsessed with her place among the beautiful people that she is willing to kill to stay there."@en
"Een derderangs actrice ontstijgt haar milieu door een miljonair te trouwen en een rol te gaan spelen in de society van New York."
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