Rodney David Wingfield, was a prolific writer of radio crime plays andcomedy scripts, some for the late Kenneth Williams, star of the Carry Onfilms. His crime novels featuring DI Jack Frost have been successfullyadapted for television as A Touch of Frost starring David Jason.Wingfield was a modest man, shunning the London publicity scene infavour of a quite life in Basildon, Essex, with his wife of 52 years(died 2004) and only son.