Sir, – Frank McNally refers to a central character, a senior detective from Dublin named Dudley Smith, in James Elroy's L.A. Confidential (An Irishman's Diary, January 12th).
Although, as Frank McNally states, the first name Dudley is “something few actual Dubliners have ever had”, one of that few was the Ranelagh-born actor Dudley Digges, who co-incidentally played a senior detective in the 1933 version of The Invisible Man. – Yours, etc,
KEVIN O’SULLIVAN,
Letterkenny,
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Co Donegal.