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Francis Durbridge
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Send for Paul Temple (Black Dagger Crime) |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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288 |
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1992-05 |
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0862208270 |
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John Curley & Assoc |
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0.93 pounds |
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5.35 x 7.95 x 1.18 inches |
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Product Description
Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple made his first appearance on BBC Radio in 1938. He 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 Temple's help with his latest tricky case. The radio serials proved so popular that Francis Durbridge was inspired to write a succession of novels featuring the smooth sleuth. In this, the very first, read by 'Buffy' and 'Little Britain' star Anthony Head, Paul is on the trail of a gang of jewel thieves - aided by the pretty, vivacious reporter Miss Steve Trent. A wave of mysterious robberies is sweeping the country, and fifty thousand pounds' worth of diamonds has been stolen in six months. During the fourth raid, a nightwatchman is attacked with chloroform, and just manages to gasp out 'The Green Finger' before he dies. Chief Inspector Dale has heard the enigmatic phrase before: it was the last utterance of a drowning man wanted in connection with another robbery. But with no further leads, the police are baffled. The cry goes out in the popular press: 'Send for Paul Temple'! The great radio detective lives again in another brand new reading by Anthony Head.
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