In 1976 Heygate committed suicide by shooting himself. He was 72. Works Books His books comprise: Decent Fellows (1930), a public school novel. White Angel (1934) Talking Picture (Jonathan Cape, 1934), a semi-autobiographical novel dealing with experiences in Weimar Berlin, similar to Christopher Isherwood's I Am a Camera. Motor Tramp (Jonathan Cape, 1935), a factual account of tours in an MG motor car, including a visit to Nazi Germany. A House for Joanna (1937). A tale of life on the Sussex coast. These Germans: An estimate of their character seen in flashes from the drama, 1918–1939 (1940) Love and Death (1943) Kurumba (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949). Described as: A raffish, intelligent tale of a soldier and his native mistress, set in the imaginary Kurumba, somewhere on the Indian sub-continent, during the second world war. Screenplays Heygate is credited as a co-writer on the following films, made in Germany and starring Lilian Harvey: The Only Girl (Ich und die Kaiserin) (1934) Black Roses (Schwarze Rosen) (1935) References 1903 births 1976 suicides English writers English male screenwriters Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People educated at Eton College Suicides by firearm in the United Kingdom Royal Artillery soldiers Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford News editors BBC people 20th-century English screenwriters 20th-century English male writers British Army personnel of World War II