Paul Temple (1/2) The Kelby Affair

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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[@lesleystuart8934]

I just love Anthony Head's voice. I could listen to this over and over. This is either an early or a late Paul Temple adventure as I have listened to the available others on KZbin already, sometimes twice. Please use this wonderful chap as a narrator more often!

[@wispywillow4891]

Wonderful narrator. Thank you so much. You are a delight to listen to and make an old story I loved since childhood. :)

[@maryoleary5044]

Beautiful reading and voice. 🐶🐈‍⬛🐷🐀🐻🦇🦔

[@granthurlburt4062]

Thanks so much for posting

[@granthurlburt4062]

The BBC radio programs are good but this is better. Crisper and funnier. And the BBC radio program too often has exchanges like this "Jenny's at home". "At home?". I suppose it keeps listeners on track but gets repetitive. I love the line "He died of a broken neck".

[@DJF1947]

This is much better written than some of the other stories. Durbridge was very lazy with some of the dialogue, until it almost sounded like a spoof, with endless references to eating, drinking and cars. This is odd, as Durbridge considered dialogue to be his forte. There is even some evidence that he employed a ghost-writer to fill in the rest of the story. One has to wonder whether the unusual degree of introspection in the Shelby affair was due to a ghost-writer, or did Durbridge deem 'internal mental reflection' to be just dialogue.

[@lucymcdee9109]

Excellent narration.

[@grahamjones1269]

A Room with a Past Now first, as I shut the door, I was alone In the new house; and the wind Began to moan. Old at once was the house, And I was old; My ears were teased with the dread Of what was foretold, Nights of storm, days of mists, without end; Sad days when the sun Shone in vain: old griefs and griefs Not yet begun. All was foretold me; naught Could I foresee; But I learned how the wind would sound After these things should be.

[@patriciatwomey9850]

Wonderful

[@arliegage1380]

Iv enjoyed several times🎉

[@lorrainemckenna3217]

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