Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case

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Murder mysteries from the world's greatest crime fiction writers. Only on BBC Sounds.

A collection of murder mysteries from some of the world's greatest writers of crime fiction. Only on BBC Sounds.

Whodunnits: Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case: 2. The Third Shoe

Paul Temple

2. The Third Shoe

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Trying to clear a man of murder, the sleuth and wife Steve visit him in jail.

Trying to clear a man of murder, the sleuth and wife Steve visit him in jail. Stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury. From 1954.

Howard Gilbert has been convicted for the murder of his model girlfriend, Brenda. 

But did he really kill her?  The debonair sleuth and his wife pay him a visit in jail.

Francis Durbridge's thriller starring Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury.

It's another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife

Paul Temple …. Peter Coke
Steve …. Marjorie Westbury
Charlie …. James Beattie
Wilfred Stirling …. Charles Leno
 Detective Inspector Kingston …. Duncan McIntyre
Lance Reynolds …. Richard Williams
Howard Gilbert …. David Peel
Mrs Talbot …. Anne Cullen
 Dick Metcalf …. Cyril Shaps
Warder …. Geoffrey Bond

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1954.

Whodunnits: Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case

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A dead girl's father is sure the police have placed the wrong man in the gallows.

A young woman was murdered, and her boyfriend is set to hang for the crime. But her father is convinced the man is innocent. Can Temple solve the case in time? Stars Peter Coke.

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