![]() ![]() ![]() 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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