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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
Bingo (Robert Emmett) Riggs
Gender: Male
Talkative, spindly small criminal, with a pointed face and mouse-coloured hair, who dreams of becoming rich – if necessary by illegal means. Robert Emmett ‘Bingo’ Riggs is a slovenly street photographer who travels around the USA in a suite of crime novels by Craig Rice (pseudonym for Georgiana Randolph Craig) with his colleague ‘Handsome’ Kusak. Time after time they are obliged to act as detectiv...