Send for Paul Temple Again!: 5 - Softcover

Durbridge, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755119037 ISBN 13: 9780755119035

Publisher: House of Stratus, 2012

Synopsis

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?

About this title

Review:

‘Francis Durbridge, made [Paul and Steve’s] adventures utterly enchanting within that shivering threadbare postwar reality.’–The Telegraph

‘A classy period piece, all clipped accents, glamour and a smoking and drinking count to rival Mad Men. Great fun and surprisingly gripping.’ –The Guardian

About the Author:

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. While 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 while 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 novelization of a radio serial. Many others followed and they were hugely successful until the last of the series was completed in 1968.

About this edition

• Publisher: House of Stratus
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0755119037
• ISBN 13: 9780755119035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264