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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
Ben Safford
Gender: Male
For an American congressman, Benton ‘Ben’ Safford (Democrat) is an unusually vague and everyday sort of man. He comes from little Newburg in Ohio, doesn’t have a family of his own but still has some relatives back in Ohio – primarily his determined sister Janet. But when the need arrives, he is a clever amateur detective, which is shown in seven novels by R.B. Dominic (pseudonym for Mary J. Latsis...