Paul Temple - BBC Radio/TV Detective created by Francis Durbridge
***The Paul Temple File***
Books & Audiobooks
Radio
Television
Books
Films
PT - Abroad
Send for
Front Page Men
News of
Curzon
Madison
Gilbert
Spencer
Conrad
originally compiled by STEVE DALY
from information supplied by Nigel Deacon, John Gardner, Penny Fabb &  Steve Daly
Formatting & pictures scanned by Greg Marshall. 17 July 2000. Modified 8 February 2001 - separate film page created.
The page has been revised and corrected several times since.

corrections or additions??
NOTE: On July 29 2000 - I revised and corrected the novels listing. (Greg)
References - "Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers"  Second and Third Editions (St James Press) 1985 & 1991.

The Paul Temple Novels
`Send for Paul Temple'. Novelisation of the radio serial written by Francis Durbridge with John Thewes. Published by LONG 1938.
`Paul Temple and the Front Page Men'. Novel based on the radio serial. Written by Francis Durbridge with Charles Hatton. Pub - LONG 1939.
`News Of Paul Temple'. Novel based on radio serial. Written by Francis Durbridge with Charles Hatton. Pub - LONG 1940.
`Paul Temple Intervenes'. written by Francis Durbridge. Published by LONG 1944.
`Send for Paul Temple Again'. Novelisation of the radio serial written by Francis Durbridge with Charles Hatton. Published by LONG 1948.
`The Tyler Mystery'. Written By Paul Temple (Actually Francis Durbridge And Douglas Rutherford). Pub - Hodder & Stoughton 1957.
 `East Of Algiers'. Written by Paul Temple (actually Francis Durbridge and Douglas Rutherford). Pub - H&S 1959.
`Paul Temple And The Kelby Affair'. By Francis Durbridge pub by H&S 1970.
`Paul Temple And The Harkdale Robbery'. By Francis Durbridge pub by H&S 1970.
`The Geneva Mystery'. By Francis Durbridge pub by H&S 1971.
`The Curzon Case'. By Francis Durbridge pub by Coronet 1972.
`Paul Temple And The Margo Mystery'. By Francis Durbridge pub by H&S 1986.
`Paul Temple And The Madison Case'. By Francis Durbridge pub by H&S 1988.
Send for Paul TemplePaul Temple and the Front Page MenNews of Paul TempleThe Curzon CaseGregory - DanishKelby - Danish
Madison - DanishMargo - Danish
Audiobooks

Isis - Paul Temple Series
Details updated November 2001.
Thanks to Peter Johnson at Isis for the images and information.
from Isis. - check their website for availability and price details.
The Madison Case (on Cassette and CD) is now available.


`Send for Paul Temple'. read by Alistair McGowan. (Unabridged published by Isis Audio)
    Isis Audio; ISBN: 1856957977 (mid 1990's)

The elusive Knave of Diamonds eludes capture in South Africa where he has carried out a series of robberies and murders. Suddenly this familiar pattern of crimes appears in London. Scotland Yard is baffled and the press is clamouring for the Yard to send for Paul Temple.

5 Audio Cassettes 
6hrs 30mins
Product code IAB940208
ISBN 1-85695-797-7

`Paul Temple and the Front Page Men'. read by Tom Crowe. (Unabridged published by Isis Audio)
    Isis Audio; ISBN: 0-7531-0988-3 (2000)
Francis Durbridge’s best-loved creation is back in this fast-moving and consistently entertaining tale. The elusive Andrea Fortune has written a mystery novel called The Front Page Men whilst a gang calling themselves by the same enigmatic name have begun a series of kidnappings. Paul Temple and his loyal wife Steve find themselves up against a far-reaching and un-scrupulous organisation in this carefully crafted guessing- game classic by the master of the cliffhanger.

6 Audio Cassettes 
6hrs 58mins
Product code IAB001214
ISBN 0-7531-0988-3
 

`News of Paul Temple'. read by Michael Tudor Barnes. (Unabridged published by Isis Audio)
    Isis Audio; ISBN 0-7531-0987-5 (March 2001)
Meeting the actress Iris Archer for the first time, Paul Temple was impressed with her intelligence and wrote a play, The First Lady Seaton, especially for her. Initially, Iris is thrilled but before the opening suddenly says she must go to France and will give no further explanation.
  Temple is therefore surprised when she turns up in a small inn in Scotland where he is holidaying with his wife, Steve. And hers is not the only face he recognises in what turns out to be a notably unquiet part of the country.

6 Audio Cassettes 
6hrs 30mins
Product code IAB010305
ISBN 0-7531-0987-5

`Paul Temple and the Kelby Affair'. read by Michael Tudor Barnes. (Unabridged published by Isis Audio)
    Isis Audio; ISBN 0-7531-1224-8 (July 2001)
When a statesman's mistress keeps a diary, that's bad. And when she decides to publish it, that's murder. Paul Temple was no historian, but Mr Alfred Kelby was, and it is Kelby who has been killed by someone who obviously wanted that diary very badly indeed. Temple started on the case with a fair amount of trepidation. And what had already seemed a complicated case ran further into the gloom of the past and helped to tumble some pretty important skeletons out of the cupboard of political intrigue.

4 Audio Cassettes 
4hrs 21mins
Product code IAB010714
ISBN 0-7531-1224-8

`Paul Temple and the Madison Case'. read by Michael Tudor Barnes. (Unabridged published by Isis Audio) NOW AVAILABLE from ISIS
    Isis Audio; ISBN 0-7531-1312-0 (November 2001)
  "Is this your first trip to England?"
An innocuous question, just polite shipboard conversation, but Sam Portland's answer immediately plunges Paul Temple and his wife, Steve, into a maelstrom of murder, blackmail and terror.
  The Madison case races at breakneck speed from a luxury liner crossing the Atlantic, to a home-counties mansion, a London nightclub, an unexpected visit to Amsterdam, and a house-boat on the Thames. But who is Madison? And has he really discovered the secret of multimillionaire Sam Portland's lost years?

5 Audio Cassettes 
4hrs 20 mins
Product code IAB011104
ISBN 0-7531-1312-0



`Paul Temple And The Harkdale Robbery'. read by Francis Matthews (abridged 1hr)
    Pickwick Talking Books;  PTB 613 (approx 1973)

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