Robert Westerby

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Robert Westerby born 3 July 1909 in England, died 16 November 1968 in California, USA, was an author of novels (published by Arthur Barker of London) and screenwriter for films and television. Westerby's novel Wide Boys Never Work was a story of the criminal underworld before the Second World War and was made into a 1956 film Soho Incident (UK title) or Spin a Dark Web (US title). His account of his early life was entitled A Magnum for my Mother (1946). To the British public, a magnum just meant a large bottle of champagne. However, in the USA it could suggest a type of handgun, so it was retitled Champagne for Mother (1947).

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[edit] Books

  • Wide Boys Never Work (1937)
  • Only Pain is Real (1937)
  • In These Quiet Streets (1938)
  • French for Funny, and Other Stories (1938)
  • Polish Gold (1940)
  • The Small Voice (1940)
  • Tomorrow Started Yesterday (1940)
  • Hunger Allows No Choice (1941)
  • Mad in Pursuit (1945)
  • A Magnum for my Mother (1946)
  • Champagne for Mother (1947)
  • An Awful Lot of Coffee (1950)
  • Five-Day Crossing (1952)
  • In the Money (1952)

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