After completing his degree, he started working for an advertising agency in 1955, before writing two comic novels, A High-Pitched Buzz (1956) and Switchboard (1957), based on his experiences there.
The novel was later turned into a stage musical scripted by Wolf Mankowitz, a radio play, and a film starring Nastassja Kinski.
[2][3][4] Longrigg appears to be the first writer to turn Jane Austen's fiction into erotica, with Virtues and Vices: A Delectable Rondelet of Love and Lust in Edwardian Times (1980), a bawdy, comic rewriting of Persuasion (novel) set a century after the original version.
A later novel, Mother Love (1983), credited to Domini Taylor, was adapted into a TV series of the same title in 1989, starring Diana Rigg and David McCallum.
[3] In 1995, the bookseller John Francis Phillimore declared in an interview that Roger Longrigg's horse-racing adventure story Daughters of Mulberry (1961) "is the greatest book ever written in any language by anybody.