Territorial Rights
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Coward, McCann & Geoghegan (US)
 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Muriel Spark |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | John Alcorn[1] |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Macmillan (UK) Coward, McCann & Geoghegan (US) |
Publication date | 1979 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 0-333-25458-9 |
Territorial Rights is a novel by the Scottish author Muriel Spark published in 1979.
Art history student Robert Leaver has fled from his lover, Curran, to Venice to study the Santa Maria Formosa. In Venice, he meets his new love Lina, a Social-realist artist and Bulgarian defector. Lina is searching for the grave of her father Victor, suspected of being involved in the poisoning of King Boris and who was killed by Bulgarian Royalists. Curran follows Robert to Venice and warns him that Lina is being followed by the Bulgarian secret service. Robert also meets his father Arnold, a retired headmaster, who is on holiday with his mistress. Arnold's wife Anthea suspects his affair and has employed the services of a Birmingham detective agency to investigate his infidelities and the agency's Venice operative, Violet de Winter, an old friend of Curran's, is put on the case. Anthea's best friend Grace determines to take a holiday to Venice with her companion Leo to find the truth.[2]
Robert then disappears and a blackmail note is sent to Curren over his and Violet's involvement in Victor's death.
