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FREE PAUL TEMPLE AND THE CONRAD CASE PDF Francis Durbridge,Peter Coke,Marjorie Westbury,Full Cast | 4 pages | 16 Aug 2004 | BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House | 9780563524649 | English | London, United Kingdom Francis Durbridge books and biography | Waterstones Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Various Narrator. Radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife solve a case Paul Temple and the Conrad Case international mystery From to crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular serials. They inhabit a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women are chic and the me Radio's smoothest sleuth and Paul Temple and the Conrad Case glamorous wife solve a case of international mystery From to crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular serials. They inhabit a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women are chic and the men still wear cravats. 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 Paul Temple and the Conrad Case edition also includes a bonus interview with Francis Durbridge. Get A Copy. 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Funnily enough Pater Coke pronounced Cook, not to be confused with the Pete Cook from Pete and Dud sounds a lot like Francis Matthewsalthough I suppose that should be the other was around really. This story focusses on the disappearance of a Doctor's daughter from her finishing school in Germany, and the chaos that ensues. Various people get dragged in to the mystery before Paul and Steve fight their way through the red herrings, outright lies and the murder attempts to a final solution. However for some I know that it will seem both a little sexist and maybe Paul Temple and the Conrad Case in other ways. View all 4 comments. Nov 22, MaggyGray rated it really liked it Shelves: autormy-books-in Mein Lieblingsfall - auch deshalb, weil er teilweise in Bayern spielt. Paul Temple goes to Bavaria, and amazingly, most people there appear to be English or speak remarkably good English. Unfortunately, no big car crash but at least there are few bombs to make up for that. May 13, Steven rated it liked it Shelves: audiolibrarymystery. Well, re-listened anyway. Entertaining lightweight mystery - good clean fun and reading. The characterizations aren't particularly believable but I don't think they are meant to be. Nice red herring thrown in to the mix as well to put you off the scent of the real culprit. Jun 25, Beth rated it really liked it Shelves: audio-books. These radio serials are always entertaining! Feb 06, Lucas rated it liked it Shelves: audio. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Okay, I did listen to way too many entries of this series this year. It was rather promising Paul Temple and the Conrad Case interesting. After all the Temples visit Germany and everyone tries to hush up the disappearance of a young girl because no one wants to be talked about or to have the name of his establishment disgraced - which may or may not be a pretty accurate statement of the so called Zeitgeist back then. That was until after nearly two third to three quater through the story there came the motiv, which was - ye Okay, I did listen to way too many entries of this series this year. That was until after nearly two Paul Temple and the Conrad Case to three quater through the story there came the motiv, which was - yet again - drugs. First of all it was added almost as if on an afterthought. And second of all: I would not even know where to buy them or whom to ask and the Temples seem to bust one drug smugling ring after another Were drugs even that popular back then? Fact is: the more I hear of those the more I crave a crime story where the people murder because of a personal motive and not because Paul Temple and the Conrad Case want to gain money, more money and even more money Psychological reasoning might be a part of our Zeitgeist, but slowly but surely I find it rather lacking in those stories. 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Francis Henry Durbridge was an English playwright and author born in Hull. A crime novelist and detective, the gentlemanly Temple solved numerous crimes with the help of Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist who later became his wife. Adventures Of Paul Temple 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. Always the gentleman, the strongest expletive he employs is by Timothy. Paul Temple was a professional novelist. While he possessed no formal training as a detective, his background in constructing crime plots for his Paul Temple and the Conrad Case 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. Here, Paul explained why certain events in the serial took place, which of these had been red herringsand which had been genuine clues. Some elements of the plot had already been explained during the Paul Temple and the Conrad Case, while others were occasionally never fully explained, due to limitations of time. The Paul Temple characters and formula were developed in a succession of BBC radio serials broadcast between andwith several voice actors portraying the Temples. The longest-running team, and the most popular with audiences, was Peter Coke pronounced Cooke [2] and Marjorie Westbury, Paul Temple and the Conrad Case starred together in every serial made between and — and Marjorie Westbury also co-starred as Steve Temple in every serial aired between and The radio series was a collaboration between writer Francis Durbridge and BBC producer Martyn C Webster, both of whom worked on every one of the radio broadcasts aired over the thirty years from to Durbridge was still at college when he approached Webster, who then was with the BBC's regional service in the Midlands, with his proposal for a mystery series about a gentleman detective. The introductory and closing music for the majority of the long-running series was Coronation Scotcomposed by Vivian Ellisthough the earliest serials those aired prior to December used an excerpt from Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.