![]() ![]() ![]() Always surviving these, Temple would arrange a cocktail party or similar social event at which he unmasked the perpetrator.Īt the end of each tale, Paul, Steve and Sir Graham Forbes held a post mortem. Yet even this informal style of investigation invariably precipitated attempts by the suspects to hamper him, through traps, ambushes, even assassination attempts. Over the course of each case, Temple eschewed formal interviews or other police techniques, in favour of casual conversations with suspects and witnesses. While he possessed no formal training as a detective, his background in constructing crime plots for his novels enabled him to apply deductive reasoning to solve cases whose solution had eluded Scotland Yard. A Paul Temple daily newspaper strip ran in the London Evening News for two decades. Always the gentleman, the strongest expletive he employs is " by Timothy!".Ĭreated for the BBC radio serial Send for Paul Temple in 1938, the Temples featured in more than 30 BBC radio dramas, twelve serials for German radio, four British feature films, a dozen novels, and a BBC television series. With his wife Louise, affectionately known as 'Steve' in reference to her journalistic pen name 'Steve Trent', he solves whodunnit crimes through subtle, humorously articulated deduction. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective. ![]() ![]() Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. ![]()
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Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she knows. Source: I was gifted a copy of this book for Christmas ![]() ![]() Each book is better than the last and the plot is finally thickening! I am late on the train with the Lux Series, but after finishing book three, Opal, there is no stopping until the end. Together we’re stronger… and they know it. ![]() Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won’t turn back. ![]() When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I’m capable. I’m different… And I’m not sure what that will mean in the end. Doubting him isn’t something I’ll do again, and now that we’ve made it through the rough patches, well… There’s a lot of spontaneous combustion going on.īut even he can’t protect his family from the danger of trying to free those they love.Īfter everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. ![]() When he set out to prove his feelings for me, he wasn’t fooling around. The Lux series continues with the third installment of this riveting paranormal YA series. ![]() ![]() ![]() But in a chaotic new world ruled by treachery and betrayal, doing the right thing can get a man killed. Surviving his brush with death, Rossett agrees to save his friend’s daughter. But when Koehler’s wife and daughter are kidnapped by American spies, the terrified German turns to the only man he trusts to help him-a shrewd cop who will do whatever is necessary to get the job done: John Rossett. Desperate to avoid blame over the events that led to the shooting, his boss, Ernst Koehler, covers up the incident. In London, decorated detective John Henry Rossett, now reporting to the Nazi victors, lies in a hospital bed recovering from gunshot wounds. With the end of the war, the victorious Germans now occupy a defeated Great Britain. In this crackling alternate history thriller set in the years after World War II-the riveting sequel to The Darkest Hour-London detective John Rossett joins forces with his Nazi boss to save the commander’s kidnapped daughter as the Germans race to make the first atomic bomb. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() MUCH admired by eminent South American writers like Julio Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez for whom he was an inspiring precursor, directing their literary imagination to make their own discoveries of the magical relationship between language and the dream of existence, and highly praised by some North American and European writers, including Italo Calvino who considered him incomparably original, yet over 50 years after his death, Felisberto Hernández (1902-1964) remains a neglected figure in an obscure corner of the literary pantheon, unnoticed by the public dazzled by the brightly lit monuments to Samuel Beckett, Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges.Įnglish-language readers can discover his singularly enchanting world in two books - Lands of Memory (translated by Esther Allen) and Piano Stories (translated by Luis Harss), both beautifully rendered from the original Spanish and thankfully kept in print in America by New Directions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bee, on the other hand, is a London mum of three, busy fighting off PTA meetings and chicken pox, dealing with dead cats and generally juggling work and family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house.īut when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion and age. ![]() She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets before breakfast, bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars and battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. ![]() May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. 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