The Merciless Ladies Author:Winston Graham 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 th... more »e price of success comes high, and Paul's decision to retreat from fame stirs the muddy waters of scandal into a dangerously lethal brew . . .