Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer as a diplomat and supervisor of the League of Nations for 10 years in Geneva, beginning in 1930. Because of the incidents in Europe, he emigrated to America, where he worked at the American University in Washington as a professor. In addition, he was employed as a consultant of the United States State Department and supported the US government in the struggle against Hitler. There, he and his younger colleague Leopold Kohr began to criticize the National Socialist Germany through media such as "The New York Times". Shortly after the Second World War, Egon Ranshofen began to work as executive,
What Was Lost by night — crowded with shoppers during the day, but empty and bleak at night. She found ideas for her book from her job in the Merry Hill Shopping Centre near Dudley in the West Midlands. "What Was Lost" was rejected by 20 agents and publishers before being accepted for publication by Tindal Street Press, a small Birmingham publisher. "What Was Lost" is a mystery story about a missing girl. It is also a portrait of a changing community over twenty years. It examines modern life's emptiness, and society's obsession with shopping. "What Was Lost" is set in the city