In June 1964, Scott began to write "The Jewel in the Crown", the first novel of what was to become "The Raj Quartet". It was published in 1966 to minor and muted enthusiasm. The remaining novels in the sequence were published over the next nine years: "The Day of the Scorpion" (1968), "The Towers of Silence" (1971) and "A Division of the Spoils" (1974). Scott wrote in relative isolation and only visited India twice more during the genesis of "The Raj Quartet", in 1968 and in 1971, latterly for the British Council. He worked in an upstairs room at his home in Hampstead overlooking the garden and Hampstead Garden Suburb woodland – a far cry from the archetypal administrative province, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalaya, in which the novels were set. He supplemented his earnings from his books with reviews for "The Times", the "Times Literary Supplement", "New Statesman" and "Country Life."