Paul Temple Intervenes
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“Paul, there’s something else I want to ask you,” she said seriously.
“You mean about this case?”
“In a way.”
Steve was hesitating in a manner which was quite unfamiliar. She turned her back on him and looked into the fire. At last, she said in a low voice: “Was Maisie Delaway a very old friend of yours?”
Temple could not restrain a huge shout of laughter. When this had subsided, he began to look through his letters.
“I’d quite forgotten this,” he told her, selecting one from the pile. “It concerns both of us.”
“What is it?”
“An invitation to a wedding.”
“A wedding?”
“Yes, on December 29th, at Marylebone Register Office, Miss Maisie Delaway proposes to take the plunge for the fourth time with …” He paused, tantalisingly. “Guess who?”
Steve shook her head helplessly. “I haven’t the least idea. Who is he?”
Paul Temple chuckled.
“The bridegroom will be none other than Sir Felix Reybourn, the eminent Egyptologist!”
Order of ‘Paul Temple’ Series Titles
These titles can be read as a series, or randomly as stand-alone novels
1. Send for Paul Temple 1938
2. Paul Temple & The Front Page Men 1939
3. News of Paul Temple 1940
4. Paul temple Intervenes 1944
5. Send for Paul Temple Again! 1948
6. Paul Temple & The Lawrence Affair 1956
7. East of Algiers 1959
8. Paul Temple & The Harkdale Robbery 1970
9. Paul Temple & The Kelby Affair 1970
10. The Geneva Mystery 1971
11. The Curzon Case 1972
12. Paul Temple & The Margo Mystery 1986
13. Paul Temple & The Madison Case 1988
14. Paul Temple & The Conrad Case 1989
Synopses of Francis Durbridge Titles
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The Curzon Case
An aeroplane crashes on the cliffs of Dulworth Bay, whilst two boys disappear from a public school. Are these events connected? There follows a gripping story of kidnapping, intrigue and death. And just who is Curzon? Another boy disappears and a murder follows - Paul Temple must urgently determine Curzon’s identity and put an end to his terrible deeds.
East of Algiers
Paul Temple is asked to do a simple favour for Steve; deliver a package to David Foster in Tunis. However, the events that follow this are truly out of proportion as a series of mysterious killings, including one where the victim is found in a rubbish bag in Paris, require a solution. The series of strange occurrences are tailor made for Paul Temple’s grit and acumen to reconcile and ensure justice prevails. ‘East of Algiers’ is a novelisation of the original radio drama ‘Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery’.
The Geneva Mystery
Swinging between London and Geneva, Paul Temple and Steve are involved in a case that involves finding the answer to one vital question: is Carl Milbourne, thought to have perished in a car accident, still alive? A Hollywood film producer and a famous actress believe he is, but there are others who are determined to stop the Temples discovering the truth. There are deep mysteries to uncover and plenty of action and suspense which might even involve the death of Paul Temple, unless he can act quickly …
News of Paul Temple
Paul Temple agrees to write a play for actress Iris Archer. However, shortly before the play is due to open, she pulls out. Then after telling everyone she is off to France, she turns up at the Temple’s Scottish holiday hotel. The mystery deepens as Temple is asked by a young man to act as postmaster in delivering a letter. Meanwhile someone acting under the codename of Z4 seems to have control of events. Could this be Doctor Steiner and just who is he? It is all up to Temple ….
Paul Temple & The Conrad Case
Betty, the daughter of Dr Conrad, disappears from her finishing school in Bavaria. Unable to solve the mystery, the police invite inveterate investigator Paul Temple to help trace the missing schoolgirl. The only clue to her whereabouts is a cocktail stick found in her bedroom. How on earth can Temple work from just that? The police have faith in him, but does he? All is revealed in yet another of Francis Durbridge’s masterful mystery adventures.
Paul Temple & ‘The Front Page Men’
A detective novel ‘The Front Page Men’ is a best seller. It is a double mystery, however, as no one knows the true identity of the author, named as Andrea Fortune, and before long the puzzle deepens as cards bearing the title of the book are left at the scene of two robberies. A connection is made between these and certain kidnapping cases, which in turn are linked to murder. Paul Temple must unravel the evidence and find the mastermind behind these crimes, as the police are stalled and in any event Steve’s life is put in danger. Can he succeed before it is too late…?
Paul Temple & The Harkdale Robbery
The bank robbers were caught straight away, but in the bag there was a ‘Concise Oxford Dictionary’ instead of money. Moreover, in Paul Temple’s garage was the body of one of the robbers. So commences one of the strangest cases of Paul temple’s career. Before it is done he comes face to face with deeply hidden underworld figures, including the ‘Master Mind’.
Paul Temple & The Kelby Affair
A senior statesman’s mistress decides to publish a diary she has been keeping. Someone wants the diary and is prepared to kill Kelby in order to get it. What starts out as a seemingly innocuous decision becomes complicated and a highly complex mystery is left for Paul Temple to solve, with many a political skeleton falling out of the cupboard in the meantime.
Paul Temple & The Madison Case
Sam Portland is on board a luxury trans-Atlantic liner, as are Paul Temple and Steve. An innocent introduction involves the Temples in a case in which murder, blackmail and terror feature as the pace quickens, taking the story to an English mansion house, Amsterdam, and a houseboat on the River Thames. The secret is what happened to Sam Portland’s lost years. But who is Madison?
Paul Temple & The Margo Mystery
Expensive Margo ‘designer’ coats; an industrialist; a pop star who is obviously frightened; and a psychiatrist with a very strange secretary all have something in common - they are somehow connected to a mysterious warning received from a fairground, and a terrifying case that Paul Temple and Steve have to solve.
Paul Temple Intervenes
Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, often needs Paul’s help with his latest tricky case. Myron Harwood, an American, is found dead in a country lane. Further celebrity murders follow. A common factor is that a note is left with each victim on a small piece of cardboard. On it is the inscription: ‘The Marquis’. A private investigator named Rita Cartwright who is investigating the murders also ends up as a victim. It is time for Paul Temple to intervene after requests from both Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, and the Home Secretary. But what can he do?
Send for Paul Temple
After a series of robberies, Scotland Yard are mystified. In the latest a night watchman is attacked, and in his last breath manages to gasp out ‘The Green Finger’. This is not the first time the phrase has come to the attention of the Yard; it was also said by a man who was wanted in connection with another robbery as he died from drowning. Who or what is the ‘Green Finger’? The public are alarmed and the press demand that the Yard ‘Send for Paul Temple!’ Aided by a young, pretty, reporter known as Steve Trent, Paul is faced with solving a deepening and widening mystery.
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