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Paul Temple and the Harkdale Robbery (A Paul Temple Mystery)

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English

By (author): Francis Durbridge

Paul and Steve are back to solve the latest hard-hitting case of robbery and murder. After a heist goes down at Harkdale bank, a gang of thieves flee and a car chase ensues.

As police close in on them, the thieves come to a screeching dead end.

All the police have to do is retrieve the money but the only thing the thieves have on them is an Oxford Dictionary! And when Paul Temple returns home, he finds the dead body of one of the robbers

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Product Details
  • Weight: 120g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Oct 2015
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008125707

About Francis Durbridge

Francis Henry Durbridge was born 25th November 1912 in Hull England. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School where he was encouraged to write by his English teacher. He continued to do so while studying English at Birmingham University. After graduating in 1933 he worked for a short time as a stockbroker's clerk before selling a radio play Promotion to the BBC at the age of 21. In 1938 Durbridge 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 German and Italian television and radio.Durbridge also forged a successful career as a writer for the stage with seven plays the last of which Sweet Revenge was written in 1991. He also wrote 43 novels many of which were adapted from his scripts sometimes with the help of others. Durbridge married Norah Lawley in 1940 they had two sons. He died at his home in Barnes aged 85 on 11th April 1998.

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