William Collins

RL received a five-hundred-pound advance from Collins for this work. For a Virago paperback reprint of 1982 she wrote, late in the previous year, an Epilogue.

With this book she moved from Geoffrey Bles, who had published her first seven novels, to Collins . She felt guilty about this move, but she joined a stable including Agatha Christie , and...

The Collins reader wrote: It is witty, the setting is impressive, the plot is tidily organised and the solution is dramatic.NM 's powers were, her publishers felt, marvellously undiminished.