Send For Paul Temple - Audio Book

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Details: Crime novelist & detective Paul Temple made his first appearance on BBC Radio in 1938. He inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails & fast cars, where the women were chic & 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' & ' 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, & fifty thousand pounds' worth of diamonds has been stolen in six months. During the fourth raid, a nightwatchman is attacked with chloroform, & 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. Read by Anthony Head Ideal for: Fans of crime, thriller & mystery audio books. Running time approximately: 2 hours 15 minutes 2 CD's