Jacqueline Susann restaurant, Susann heard someone shout, "There's the Schiffli girl!" Susann, realizing that 25 years of hard work had culminated only in recognition as the "Schiffli girl," was discouraged." She later appeared in a 1971 episode of the crime drama "Mannix" ("The Crime That Wasn't", airdate January 29, 1971). During the mid-1950s, Susann had written a science-fiction novel called "The Stars Scream" (published posthumously as "Yargo"). In the early 1960s, she considered writing a book about show business and drug use, to be entitled "The Pink Dolls". In 1962, however, after encouragement from showman Billy Rose, husband of Susann friend Joyce
What a Carve Up! (novel) employing multiple narrative styles, different perspectives, movement between first- and third-person narrative voices and a highly fragmented timeline. Robert McCrum called it "the finest English satire from the 1980s - a memorable and explicit commentary on Thatcherism." In 2015, the author published a related novel set in the early 21st century, "Number 11". The latter novel is sometimes described as a sequel but elsewhere using other phrases such as a "sequel, of sorts." The relationship between the two books is suggested in the later novel (describing the relationship between two films, "What A Carve-Up!" and "What A Whopper", which are