Now in paperback, this is set in London's theatreland in 1936, and follows illicit affairs, the lives of actors, artists and critics, and crimes of a serial killer. From the author of }Half The Human Race{. 'This is an utterly delightful read,' }Observer On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she shouldn't have been at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man.