When it comes to classic crime partnerships, Paul Temple and his wife Steve are the creme de la creme. Three complete radio dramas featuring writer-cum-amateur detective Paul Temple, plus bonus archive material.

Three complete radio dramas featuring writer-cum-amateur detective Paul Temple, plus bonus archive material. About the Author Francis Durbridge ( 1912 1998) was an English playwright and author.In 1938 he created the character Paul Temple, a crime novelist and detective. With Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist and later his wife, Temple solved numerous crimes in the glamorous world of the leisured middle classes, first on radio, then in films and, from 1969 to 1971, in a television series. In addition to the Paul Temple series, Durbridge wrote other mysteries for radio and television, many of which were also produced for Dutch, German and Italian television and radio.e with seven plays, the last of which, Sweet Revenge, was written in 1991. He also wrote forty-three novels, many of which were adapted from his scripts, sometimes with the help of others.