Robert Westerby

Robert Westerby (born 3 July 1909 in England, died 16 November 1968 in California, United States), was an author of novels (published by Arthur Barker of London) and screenwriter for films and television. Westerby's 1937 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), and was the earliest published use of the word "wide boy". 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). In 2008 London Books republished...