Paul Temple (1/2) The Tyler Mystery

PAUL TEMPLE.....
Is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective. 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. And always the gentleman.
Created for the BBC radio serial Send for Paul Temple in 1938, the Temples featured in more than thirty BBC radio dramas, twelve serials for German radio, four British feature films, a dozen novels, and a BBC television series. A Paul Temple daily newspaper strip ran in the London Evening News for two decades.
Paul Temple was a professional novelist. 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. Over the course of each case, Temple eschewed formal interviews or other police techniques, in favour of casual conversations with suspects and witnesses. Yet even this informal style of investigation invariably precipitated attempts by the suspects to hamper him, through traps, ambushes, even assassination attempts. Surviving these, Temple would arrange a cocktail party or similar social event at which he unmasked the perpetrator.
At the end of each tale, Paul, Steve and Sir Graham Forbes held a post mortem. Here, Paul explained why certain events in the serial took place, which of these had been red herrings, and which had been genuine clues. Some elements of the plot had already been explained during the serial, while others were occasionally never fully explained, due to limitations of time.
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[@kimmccabe1422]

Love Temple series. I wish BBC would make all their scripts come alive ❤

[@jennifercooke361]

Beautiful voice, perfect for Paul Temple ❤

[@Sharon_Mc]

🇬🇧 Wonderful. Thank you. I can visualise all those characters and places.

[@athenaathena1307]

Great performance. Thanks for sharing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@muffinmarie01]

I love Anthony 's voice. He is perfect

[@granthurlburt4062]

Thanks for this. These classic stories are wonderful

[@ARoomWithAPast527]

Thanks for listening

[@ThomasHyland-eb4ol]

Beautiful voice.

[@arliegage1380]

Truly enjoy the Reader, makes everything interesting and enjoyable🎉

[@muffinmarie01]

I think Paul is as snooty as they come. He really should appreciate Charlie and stop finding fault with him. Steve says it's difficult to find good help so Paul should be thankful for Charlie help. I also find the way Paul talks to Steve as if she was household help. Steve does have enough sense to treat the company who visits their home with respect and offers them beverages. Paul always asks if she looked after their needs. I enjoy the stories very much and listen to them more than once. Wonderful way to spend the day.

[@railway-share3820]

Temple is not snooty he just has standards.

[@MsHazard1]

The past is a different country... actually better times than today.

[@tessamichael9766]

Yes … I agree. He is an arrogant chauvinist snob. Charlie would probably listen to him if he spoke to him decently. But I really enjoy the stories.

[@notyou9743]

@@MsHazard1got that right. He’s a wonderful husband to Stevey.

[@chrisberry9017]

Just keep in mind when these stories were set. Society was very different then, and there was a strong awareness of ‘place’ in it. It might not be what suits everyone, but in many ways was an easier time to live.

[@user-jl8mp6lg4i]

January

[@timgluckman8663]

Badly written with many clichés. Wd help to know year of publication tho' that can be found in Wikipedia

[@sv2398]

Learn to write English, before you criticise an author's work

[@Lindacbugg]

If you found it in Wikipedia & were annoyed it wasn't here why not add it?