Goodreads asked David Linzee:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

David Linzee As a tenant, I served on a community improvement board with some of my neighborhood's biggest landlords. They called a meeting and a vote on selling a building the board owned to a major investor. We debated the pros and cons and I voted for the sale....LITTLE DID I KNOW (as they say in mystery novels) that as part of the same transaction, my landlord was selling the building I lived in to the same major investor. Though my landlord was sitting next to me at the meeting, not a word did he breathe to me until the story broke in the newspapers. The result? My rent went up steeply under the new landlord. But a writer makes capital of his worst moments, as Maugham said. This was the only time that I was the victim of an intrigue (and found out about it later) and I made the incident the heart of ONE FELL SWOOP, my latest novel.

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