Is It a Publicity Stunt?

The most common explanation, which you see a lot in the newspapers af the time, is that it must be a publicity stunt. Some people are very cynical about it, and they say, she must have planned this. This is all just to get publicity for a next book. And we don't that's not wholly implausible. The twenties is a great age of publicity stunts. Detective fiction is a very kind of cut throat, competitive business,. so it would kind of make sense to do a publicity stunt with her reappearance. But other than that, people are completely baffled because they don't know the back story, you see.