Charles Hale, a reporter with The Daily Messenger, is sent to Brighton to play a promotional game called "Kolley Kibber." Modeled after the real-life game, "Lobby Lud," it involves Hale leaving various cards at designated locations in Brighton. It also shares its title with a 1974 hit Queen song, and its characters are mentioned in the refrain of the 1994 Morrissey song, "Now My Heart Is Full," reflecting the book's far-reaching impact on British culture. The novel's title, which refers to a type of hard candy sold in Brighton and other seaside towns, is a metaphor for Pinkie, who is hard "all the way through." The book has been adapted to stage and film numerous times, most recently in 2018 by the British dramatist Bryony Lavery. Brighton Rock (1938), a novel by English writer Graham Greene, tells the story of Pinkie Brown, a teenaged sociopathic gang leader operating in the English seaside resort of Brighton during the 1930s.
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