Herbert Mayes, editor at "Good Housekeeping" had conceived the idea of "Murder at the Stork Club", and he chose Caspary to write the story. Thus during the nine weeks she was in New York waiting for her passport, "Good Housekeeping" paid all her expenses and all her Stork Club dinners were free. Unfortunately one night she was seated next to Otto Preminger, and they proceeded to start a fiery argument regarding the script for "Laura" and the resultant film. Caspary and Igee pestered every official they knew and didn't know on both sides of the Atlantic, trying to grease the wheels of bureaucracy. As part of the deal with the British Ministry of Information she agreed to write articles about wartime England for American newspapers and magazines. Finally on January 12, 1945, Vera Caspary disappeared from New York only to reappear on a dock in England, just in time to see the British stage production of "Laura" open at the Q theater in London on Jan 30th, with Sonia Dresdel as Laura.