Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery by Francis Durbridge

They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul’s help with his latest tricky case. From 1938 to 1969, the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his ‘Fleet Street’ journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio’s most popular series. Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury star in another intriguing case for BBC Radio’s smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. But who is Jonathan, and what is his connection to the dead man? It is up to Paul to find the answer…

The only clues are a postcard from Harrogate signed Jonathan, and Richard s missing gold signet ring. But at the airport, there is shocking news: Richard has been murdered, found shot dead in his room. They are flying to England to visit their son Richard, a student at Oxford University. This time, the case involves the Fergusons, who Paul and Steve meet while on the way home from New York. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul s help with his latest tricky case.

Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury star in another suspenseful case for BBC radio’s smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio s most popular serials. Anthony Head brings the great radio detective to life in this new reading of Francis Durbridge’s classic novel.

‘Eminently enjoyable listening’ ‘Daily Express’. ‘Paul Temple East of Algiers‘ is a novelisation of the original radio drama ‘Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery’. For Judy Wincott’s simple request that Paul return a pair of glas*ses to David Foster in Tunis is a prelude to a body in a Paris rubbish bin and a succession of mysterious killings… When Paul Temple agreed to do a favour for a friend of Steve, he could never have foreseen the extraordinary sequence of events that would be set in motion. In this one, read by ‘Buffy’ and ‘Little Britain’ star Anthony Head, a pair of spectacles spells trouble for the smooth sleuth. The radio serials proved so popular that Francis Durbridge was inspired to write a succession of novels featuring Paul Temple. They inhabited a sophisticated world of cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Temple’s help with his latest tricky case. Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve first appeared on BBC Radio in 1938.

Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery by Francis Durbridge