From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC radios 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. And where Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard always needs Pauls help with a tricky case.

It wasn't quite an ordinary robbery. The bank lost 42,000, and a policeman lost his life, and the robbers were caught almost immediately.

But in the bag where the money should have been there was only a copy of the Concise Oxford Dictionary. And in the garage where Paul Temple's car should have been there was the body of a dead robber.

Which in itself was enough to send our hero off on one of the strangest cases of his life. One that took him deep into the bowels of the underworld and placed him face to face with Mr Master Mind.

Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his journalist wife solve case after case in one of BBC radios most popular serials

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