Send for Paul Temple Again! [electronic resource] : Paul Temple Series, Book 5
Durbridge, Francis2012
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A woman is found dead on a train, and the name "Rex" is written - this is the third in a mysterious string of murders and Scotland Yard are baffled. They send for Paul Temple again. An investigator, who is now a mystery novelist, Temple and his wife Steve become involved in this latest mystery. Meeting the Yard's Sir Graham Forbes at a nightclub, they witness one of the performers die in the middle of her act before they have a chance to speak to her. Can Temple unmask 'Rex' before he (or she) strikes again?
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Send for Paul Temple Again! [electronic resource] : Paul Temple Series, Book 5 / Francis Durbridge
Author:
Durbridge, Francis, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : House of Stratus, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Paul Temple
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Francis Henry Durbridge was born in Hull, Yorkshire, in 1912 and was educated at Bradford Grammar School. He was encouraged at an early age to write by his English teacher and went on to read English at Birmingham University. Whilst an undergraduate he started to develop the radio play format for which he first became known. At the age of twenty-one he sold a play to the BBC and continued to write following his graduation whilst working as a stockbroker's clerk. In 1938, by this time writing full time, he created the character Paul Temple, a crime novelist and detective. With Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist and later his wife, Temple solved numerous crimes. Durbridge's style was very much in the mode of the earlier 'Golden Age' middle class amateur detectives . The first book, 'Send for Paul Temple', was written along with John Thewes as the novelisation of a radio serial. Many others followed and they were hugely successful until the last of the series was completed in 1968. In 1969, the Paul Temple series was adapted for television and four of the adventures, prior to this, had been adapted for cinema, albeit with less success than radio and TV. Durbridge also invented another new character, Tim Frazer, an undercover agent who appeared in both novels and as a TV series. Francis Durbridge also wrote for the stage and continued doing so up until 1991, when 'Sweet Revenge' was completed. Additionally, he wrote over twenty other well received novels, most of which were on the general subject of crime. The last, 'Fatal Encounter', was published after his death in 1998.
ISBN:
9780755134540
Language:
English
BRN:
2837593
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