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Best known as a writer of suspense novels, he achieved international fame as an early exponent of dual narrative storytelling, employing first and third person narration and two stories in tandem that converge to produce an unexpected ending. His most famous work,
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Working in radio and advertising in the early 1940s, Ballinger wrote 81 radio scripts and produced
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Writing primarily under his own name, but occasionally using the pen names
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In addition to his books and teleplays, Ballinger wrote screenplays for
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