"I should have never committed that murder," Caspary complained. The English "Harper's Bazaar" also wanted "Murder at the Stork Club", and its editor Ben McPeake, like Mayes in New York continually checked on the story's progress. Unfortunately, there were too many distractions for her to write in London, but luckily she had the loan of W. R. Hearst's Castle in Wales, St Donat's. All but empty and abandoned during the war, it provided much needed seclusion for her to write the story. She returned to London and Igee, where they enjoyed the few months they had left, but when the war ended and the screenplay was finished, the Ministry of Information sent her packing back to Hollywood for another separation without a foreseeable end. Igee had to stay and finish the picture.