Paul Temple And The Conrad Case

Oct 6, 2024 4:30 AM

Author:Francis Durbridge,Peter Coke,Marjorie Westbury,Full Cast

From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular serials. They inhabited a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. The case this time involves Dr Conrad's daughter Betty, who has disappeared from her finishing school in Bavaria. Paul is invited by the police to go over there to help trace the missing girl. Initially, though, even he is baffled, since the only clue to the mystery is an unusual cocktail stick found in her bedroom. Can Paul work it out? This edition also includes a bonus interview with Francis Durbridge.

Reviews

American hardboiled at its very best, full of taciturn and stoical characters and plotting in explosive overdrive

—— Times

Up there with the likes of James Lee Burke and Michael Connelly at the forefront of hard-boiled American crime fiction

—— Glasgow Herald

'A thriller that starts at a gallop and then gets even faster...even if you're not a regular thriller reader, give The Analyst a try. Be warned however, it is seriously addictive stuff'

—— Sunday Express

'An unconventional and beautifully constructed thriller that constantly engages and surprises'

—— Irish Independent

If Ruth Rendell were not slotted into the category of writer of mystery novels, she would have won the Booker long ago

—— Books of the Year, Evening Standard

Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world

—— Ian Rankin

A writer of extraordinary imagination

—— Sunday Express

The striking gothic setting of London under fire proves fruitful ground for a bizarre dark comedy of an investigation... bawdy, unpredictable and at times hilarious, with a cast of wonderful grotesques

—— Maxim Jakubowski , Guardian

Fowler belongs with the mythographers of London: Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd

—— New Statesman

Its combination of Grand Guignol and place setting does command attention

—— Metro London

Original, moving and entertaining for adults as well as for older children

—— Julia Donaldson , Daily Express

A deservedly acclaimed read.

—— Time Out London

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