It’s 11.30am on Friday, June 23 2023. I’ve been rifling the archives and punching in keywords for the past few hours. Suddenly I’m excited. I’ve found a report in a copy of Variety Magazine dated July 27, 1927. It’s unlikely to have been seen by another pair of eyes for close to a 100 years….

In May 1924, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, left Great Neck for Europe. After a brief stay in Paris, the couple took rental of the Villa Marie in Valescure near Saint Raphael on the French Riviera. It was here that the author composed the final drafts of his novel, The Great Gatsby. During…