Memento mori, and The ballad of Peckham Rye.
(Book)

Memento mori: "In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, 'Remember you must die.' Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of their lives, unsavories like blackmail and adultery are now to be glimpsed." The ballad of Peckham Rye: "The wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas (a.k.a. Douglas Dougal) to do "human research" into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem, mutiny, and murder he will stir up... In fact this Music Man of the thoroughly modern corporation changes the lives of all the eccentric characters he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the typing pool, to V.R. Druce, unsuspecting Managing Director"--summaries from www.goodreads.com.

BSLW RECAT 2023