John Langdon (typographer) Langdon is known mostly through his association with Dan Brown, and the novels "Angels & Demons", "The Da Vinci Code," "The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and Origin". The protagonist of these novels was named Robert Langdon as a tribute to John Langdon, and he will continue to be so for his next 12 books, an estimate given by Dan Brown himself. Langdon is now a professor of typography and corporate identity at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He continues to do work on ambigrams, as well and fine art works that incorporate language, type, and philosophy. Langdon credits his paternal grandparents for
George Bulman (fictional character) George Bulman (fictional character) Detective Sergeant George Bulman was a fictional detective created by Kenneth Royce in his series of books about The XYY Man (semi-reformed cat burglar Spider Scott), where the character's name was initially Alf Bulman. Here Bulman is presented as a 'bent copper', though the only examples of his corruption given are that he gained promotion to sergeant by persuading down-and-outs to confess to unsolved robberies, in return for a prison sentence which would put them inside during the coldest months of winter. These books were turned into a Granada TV series in the mid-1970s, with actor