Regarding my previous posts on Frederic Goldsmith and his mystery novel Murder in Mayfair, primarily this one, Jamie Sturgeon sent me the following email:

   By chance whilst going through my boxes of books I found a had a copy in dust wrapper of Frederic Goldsmith’s The Smugglers. I have scanned the blurb for Murder in Mayfair which was on the rear flap and attached it. The printed dedication in the book is to I.G., his father I presume. I did have a copy of Murder in Mayfair in a previous catalogue but I sold it.

Mayfair

   In the pair of emails that follow, Jamie added:

   Reading the blurb I wonder if the book could be based on the short novel by Vera Caspary, Lady in Mink? The US edition (book club only) was The Murder in the Stork Club.

and

   If Murder in Mayfair is a re-write of The Murder in the Stork Club, apparently the Caspary story first appeared in Good Housekeeping magazine (I did a google search).

                        Regards,
                           Jamie

    Comparing the pair of titles for Caspary’s book with the story line given in the blurb, it certainly looks like a match to me. I’m convinced. Thanks, Jamie! With this to go on, I also found the Good Housekeeping citation, from a Gutenberg list of copyright renewals:

R571103.
The Murder in the Stork Club. By
Vera Caspary. First appeared in Good
housekeeping magazine. NM: additions
& revisions. © 19Sep46; A8155.
Vera Caspary (A); 1Feb74; R571103.

   Case closed?