Description
When an appalling boating accident off the coast of Nice allegedly kills Dr. Alex Davenport, his attractive young wife Marie finds herself in the ironic position of widow of a husband she had been planning to leave for another man. But Alex's body suddenly disappears from the morgue, and his plane ticket and passport are missing. So begins a mystery of hypnotic fascination, involving elements of the bizarre and the supernatural.
About the Author
Brian Moore (1921–1999) was born into a large, devoutly Catholic family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His father was a surgeon and lecturer, and his mother had been a nurse. Moore left Ireland during World War II and in 1948 moved to Canada, where he worked for theMontreal Gazette, married his first wife, and began to write potboilers under various pen names, as he would continue to do throughout the 1950s.The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne(1955, now available as an NYRB Classic), said to have been rejected by a dozen publishers, was the first book Moore published under his own name, and it was followed by nineteen subsequent novels written in a broad range of modes and styles, from the realistic to the historical to the quasi-fantastical, includingThe Luck of Ginger Coffey,An Answer from Limbo,The Emperor of Ice Cream,I Am Mary Dunne,Catholics,Black Robe, andThe Statement. Three novels—Lies of Silence,The Colour of Blood, andThe Magician’s Wife—were short-listed for the Booker Prize, andThe Great Victorian Collectionwon the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.After adaptingThe Luck of Ginger Coffeyfor film in 1964, Moore moved to California to work on the script for Alfred Hitchcock’sTorn Curtain. He remained in Malibu for the rest of his life, remarrying there and teaching at UCLA for some fifteen years. Shortly before his death, Moore wrote, “There are those stateless wanderers who, finding the larger world into which they have stumbled vast, varied and exciting, become confused in their loyalties and lose their sense of home. I am one of those wanderers.”
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