This is different lots of the other murder mysteries in that there were many cases ongoing at at same time which made a refreshing change. This got to be quite frustrating as the book went on. Webster, who was his Watson, was painfully slow and blunt. Jack Frost in this book is much coarser than on TV although not necessarily to his detriment. I didn't realise this until I was pretty far along into the listening. With the incentive of a GBP50 non-returnable advance, he completed the book, Frost at Christmas - only for it to be rejected.First I should mention that this is the second in the series after Frost at Christmas. In 1972, the publishing company Macmillan commissioned Wingfield to write a crime novel.

Over the next two decades, he produced numerous successful BBC Radio dramas, as well as a comedy series starring Kenneth Williams as a secret agent, The Secret Life of Kenneth Williams (1971-73). They soon commissioned a further two, and Wingfield decided to give up the day job and become a full-time writer. In his free time, he wrote radio plays, and in 1968 the BBC bought his 45-minute play Compensating Error. Exempted from National Service due to his poor eyesight, he had various office jobs before becoming a clerk for the Petrofina Oil Company in Epsom. He was educated at the Coopers Company School and - along with the rest of the school - was evacuated to Frome, Somerset during the Second World War. RD (Rodney David) Wingfield was born in Hackney in 1928.

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