Captain Dingle

The schooner Black Pearl sailed from Mahe, the Seychelle Islands to the Crozets, seeking gold that had gone down with the immigrant ship Strathmore.

He wrote pulp fiction for magazines such as Adventure[7] and Blue Book[8] under the names 'Captain A. E. Dingle' and Sinbad.

[9] In New York, he shared a flat with writer Gordon MacCreagh and his pet python Billy.

[10] He sold his first story, "Blind Luck on St. Paul", to Adventure for somewhere between forty-five and sixty-five dollars, and it appeared in the January 1913 issue.

[12] In 1942, he was a guest on BBC Radio's Desert Island Discs,[13] perhaps the programme's only experienced castaway.