This novel was written by Sayers while she was working on the Nine Tailors. The bell ringing in that book took a long time to research and she had to produce another novel, in a hurry to fulfil her contract. She knew about advertising, as she had worked for several years in an advertising office, after having trouble finding a job that suited her in teaching or publishing. She had been a good copy writer and enjoyed the work, but had left the job to become a full-time writer.
She produced a plot about drugs and Bright Young Things, but admitted that while she knew about advertising, she did not know so much about dope....
In this novel Peter goes undercover as a copy writer in a firm in Bloomsbury, where someone died in an accident by falling down a staircase. The management want to find out exactly what happened, and he agrees to send an agent along to work in the office, but decides to go himself, as it might be fun to try his hand at a job. He takes a flat nearby, in a building where Parker lives with Mary, Peter's sister, and their 2 children... Mary has given up Bolshevism and is a busy housewife.
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