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Durbridge, Francis
The British crime writer Francis Durbridge was born in Hull in Yorkshire. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School in Bradford, and then at the University of Birmingham where he studied English and Economics and gained a degree in 1933. That same year he succeeded in selling his first radio playscript. He worked for a while at a stockbroking firm but subsequently devoted all his time to...
Literary figures
Randolph Mason
Gender: Male
By using gaps in the legislation, this feared lawyer from New York often gets his clients off the hook – regardless of whether they are innocent or not. This takes place in the first two collections of short stories about him by Melville Davisson Post. In the third, and final, book however, Randolph Mason is on the side of the police, and acts as a detective. He is well built, has brown hair w...