From 1942 in one of the oldest full-length radio dramas in the BBC archive Carl Bernard stars as Paul Temple & Bernadette Hodgson as his wife Steve. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist & detective Paul Temple together with his Fleet Street" journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They 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 Paul's help with his latest tricky case. The murder of well-known American Myron Harwood found dead in a small country lane heralds the start of a series of celebrity murders. Each time the body is found with a small square piece of white cardboard bearing the inscription ' The Marquis'. When the eighth victim a girl is picked out of the river with the same card attached to her dress a note from Paul Temple is delivered to Sir Graham Forbes. The message reads: ' Is it true what they say about Rita?' Rita Cartwright was a private detective investigating the Marquis murders
- & now she too has ended up dead. With the police baffled & the Home Secretary specially requesting his involvement Paul Temple has no choice but to intervene..."