Robin Estridge, aka Robin York and Philip Loraine is a British

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 author

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 of suspense fiction and screenwriter

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. His date of birth is unknown.

His real name was Robin Estridge, but he mostly published novel

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s under the name of Robin York and Philip Loraine. Today, he has been somewhat forgotten by many readers as well as collectors of crime fiction

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. Sea Change (1982) is one of his best known novels.

An introductory note to And to My Beloved Husband written under the pseudonym Philip Loraine (Ace Books, N.Y., (year of publication is missing, originally published by M.S. Mill Co, 1950) the following information is given about the author:

"Philip Loraine has published a number of top-notch suspense novels in the United States, and under his real name has written other books, as well as film and television scripts."

Loraine has also been a sailor in the Royal Navy

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, a theatrical designer, a dishwasher in Paris

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, a journalist

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 and a tubercular patient. At present he resides in Corsica

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, but he has also spent five years in the United States

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, as well as living in Italy

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, Yugoslavia

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, Spain

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 and, as seldom as possible, his native England

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. He likes writing, peace and quiet, sunshine and new places. He dislikes bad food, bad manners, people who think of themselves as intellectual, bigotry, politics and politicians.

Selected novels

• White Lie the Dead (Hodder, 1950)
• Exit with Intent (Stoughton, 1950)
• And to my Beloved Husband (M&S, 1950)
• The Break in The Circle (M&S, 1951)
• The Dublin Nightmare (H&S, 1951)
• The Angel of Death (H&S, 1961)
• Day of the Arrow (Collins, 1964)
• W.I.L One to Curtis (Collins, 1967)
• The Dead Men of Sestos (Collins, 1968)
• A Mafia Kiss (Collins 1969)
• Photographs Have Been Sent to Your Wife (Collins, 1971)
• Voices in an Empty Room (Collins, 1973)
• Ask the Rattlesnake (Collins, 1975)
• Lions Ransom (Collins, 1980)
• Sea Change (Collins, 1982)
• Death Wishes (Collins, 1983)

Screenwriting credits

• 1975 Permission to Kill
• 1967 Eye of the Devil
• 1966 The Boy Cried Murder
• 1963 Drums of Africa
• 1962 Escape from Zahrain
• 1960 No Kidding
• 1959 Northwest Frontier
• 1957 Checkpoint
• 1957 Campbell's Kingdom
• 1957 Dangerous Exile
• 1955 Above Us the Waves
• 1955 Simba
• 1954 Chance Meeting
• 1953 A Day to Remember
• 1948 House of Darkness