Barbara Thorn

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.

The funny side of a veteran nightclub comedy team with a long list of females conquests is poisoned during a live performance.