The suave amateur private detective is drawn into the murder of the actress daughter of a theatre impresario.

Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife.

Paul Temple …… Peter Coke
Steve …… Marjorie Westbury
Det Insp Vosper …… Hugh Manning
Charlie …… James Beattie
Eric Lansdale …… John Graham
Sir Graham Forbes …… Lester Mudditt
Rupert Dreisler …… Brewster Mason
Adrian Frost …… Simon Lack
Judy Milton …… June Turbin
Pete Roberts …… Thomas Heathcote

From 1938 to 1969, the crime fiction novelist and amateur detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case. They inhabit a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where women are chic and men wear cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needs Paul's help with his latest tricky case.

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1957. Show less