Paul Temple

Who Dies Next

Paul and Steve arrive home to find they have been burgled. Curiously, nothing of value seems to have been taken, but books have been removed from the bookshelves as if someone had been searching through them. Searching for what?

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Message from A Dead Man

Spending a weekend at Random Cottage, Paul and Steve are visited by a young American, who tells them he has heard a murder being arranged on the telephone. When Paul starts checking he finds that everything the American told him was untrue, but then a man is found dead.

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There Must Be A Mr X

After an evening at a gambling club, Paul takes a hostess, Sandra, back to her flat. When Paul arrives home in the early hours of the morning he tells Steve he has been talking over old times with a friend. What is Paul up to?

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Missing Penny

Paul is told a strange story about a girl missing from a village not far from Random Cottage. He learns that she didn't drive a car and she didn't take the only bus to the nearest station. In fact, nobody saw her leave at all...

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The Man Who Wasn't Really There

A man known to Paul and Steve is reported killed in an air crash in Rome, but Steve is positive that the man called at the Temples' home shortly after the time given for the crash.

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Which One of Us Is Me?

Paul is asked for help by a man called Howard Hawthorn. Apparently someone is intent on destroying Howard; his character, his marriage, his sanity. Paul asks who this someone is. Howard replies, 'Howard Hawthorn.'

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Inside Information

A private enquiry agent calls to see Steve, who tells him she wants him to watch Paul. When the agent asks why, Steve says she suspects Paul of being unfaithful, and requires evidence for a divorce.

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The Masked Lady

A film is being made in an ancestral home about the legend of the strange disappearance of the Masked Lady. A young girl playing the part also disappears.

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Swan Song For Colonel Harp

Colonel Harp is one of the regulars at the Falcon. One day a stranger comes to see him, and Eric observes that the Colonel seems frightened. Shortly, it is announced that the Colonel is selling his house and moving to a cottage in the country. The stranger asks Eric to take a trunk down to the cottage, but the Colonel is not present. The stranger says the trunk contains books...

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Mr Wallace Predicts

Paul and Steve find themselves involved with Mr Wallace, a researcher into extra-sensory perception. But Mr Wallace has another talent that interests Paul: he can predict accidents. Unfortunately, the victims never seem to get his warnings in time.

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Letters From Robert

Miss Rose Martin was once in love with a man called Robert Stanlake, who disappeared mysteriously 20 years ago. She starts getting letters, from someone who seems to know all about her, signed as Robert Stanlake.

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The Man From the Sea

Kate is taking a holiday at the seaside. Walking along the beach, she discovers a body washed up by the tide. A lighthouse keeper tells her he has sent for the police, but Kate later discovers the police have no knowledge of the body.

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The Victim

Peter Tremayne, a rich industrialist, is being persecuted by someone. He thinks his persecutor is an old enemy, but Paul has other ideas.

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Right Villain

Paul is literally 'taken for a ride' when he contemplates buying a new car. Sammy Carson, ex-villain and part-owner of the garage involved, offers Paul the car in exchange for his help – which he badly needs!

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Kill Or Cure

Steve's friend Ilse Goetz visits London with her uncle, a pharmaceutical manufacturer. After contacting the Temple's, she disappears – and when Paul investigates, her uncle warns him not to get involved...

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Games People Play

While in Malta, Paul and Steve are drawn into the 'sweet life' of a group for whom luxury has become a necessity – a life that soon lures the innocent beyond boredom into danger.

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The Artnappers

Gallery raids and art thefts are becoming increasingly commonplace – often the only losers appear to be the insurance companies. Paul finds that even they can limit their liability to pay by investing in crime...

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The Black Room

How deeply within ourselves can we bury the effects of violence? Paul discovers methods by which unscrupulous men use a victim's past to force their way into a frightening future.

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Antique Death: Part 1

Paul is amused when he discovers that the copy of an Etruscan Apollo which he has bought causes a ripple of alarm in museum circles as the original is reputed to be unique and no other copy is known to exist. But when the figurine disappears, the chase leads Paul to Amsterdam and into the dangers that lie beyond the respectable front of dealing in `genuine' art-fakes.

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Antique Death: Part 2

Paul moves from Amsterdam to Bruges in his search for the Arezzo Apollo figurine which has been stolen from him. The death of Genevieve Duclos leads him closer to those responsible and deeper into the dangerous world of organised international crime.

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Double Vision

Paul, on a visit to Edinburgh to attend a crime writers' conference, is asked by a beautiful young German girl to read her first novel. A charming girl; an innocent request; but, it turns out, the book appears to be in great demand...

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Steal A Little Happiness

Paul and Steve pick up a hitchhiking street urchin called Gina outside Milan, and soon discover the pressures that poverty brings to bear on the young. In an attempt to help the girl, Paul uncovers a relationship between Gina and Ettore, a helpless old man, that is based on need rather than on cupidity.

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The Suitcase

A Secret Service plot or the bitter end to a tangled domestic quarrel? This is the fascinating question facing Paul Temple when a suitcase explodes in a Surrey country house.

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Murder In Munich: Part 1

Temple, on a visit to Munich, is horrified to find that he has been mistaken for an assassin. Worse still, he is expected to proceed with, and complete, the killer's assignment.

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Murder In Munich: Part 2

Temple, cleverly framed for murder on a visit to Munich, must make a life-and-death race against time to prove his innocence.

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Re-Take

What is the connection between a series of crimes in Rome seven years ago and the disappearance of a child in London now?

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House Of the Dead

Paul Temple receives a strange invitation to an abandoned house to investigate a five-year-old murder.

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Sea Burial

On a visit to Sweden, Paul Temple receives a mysterious summons that pitchforks him on to the trail of an ingenious and unusual crime.

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Night Train

Coincidence, perhaps? Or does the appearance of Freddie Price as a sleeping car attendant on the Temples' train have a more sinister significance?

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Corrida

Bulls and Christian Martyrs. That's the toll throughout the centuries at the ancient arena in Arles. Is the bullring about to be used for another sport – like the killing of escaped criminals?

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Corrida (1971)

Paul and Steve investigate the deaths of two young boys in an explosion at a derelict French country house.

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Death For Drivers' Reasons

A quiet stretch of coastline holds all sorts of menacing surprises for Paul and Steve's yachting weekend.

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A Greek Tragedy

Tragedy? Or a menacing conspiracy of silence? What exactly is going on in the small mountainside village in Greece? And what is the tie-up with those grim events as far back as the winter of 1944?

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The Specialists

Strange people – specialists. Bodyguard one day – the next assassin. Very efficient and reliable to the man who pays him – first.

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The Specialists (1971)

Temple investigates assassination attempts against ruthless businessman Edward Caine.

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Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?

Very efficient these Intelligence Agents. Almost clever enough to conceal the truth from the Temples as they make a surprise visit on an old friend in a small Riviera fishing port.

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Requiem For A Don

Suicide? Or murder? Temple's investigation into the death of an old friend causes a lot of long faces in a famous Midlands University town.

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Motel

Why should a lonely Scottish motel be the gathering point for a gang of criminals?

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Cue Murder!

Tension and drama build up to a breathless climax as Paul reveals a murderer before a television audience.

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Death Of Fasching

Paul takes a strange partner at a Fasching Ball in Munich – and thereafter has to watch his step.

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Catch Your Death

Paul and Sammy between them track down a dangerous thief – and nearly catch a nasty cold!

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Paper Chase

A glimpse under the covers for Paul of secret political warfare in London.

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Death Sentence

Susan Grant hasn't an enemy in the world – so why do they want to kill her?

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Ricochet

Paul, on a visit to St Moritz with Steve to meet his accountant, soon finds he has other problems on his mind than facts and figures.

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With Friends Like You, Who Needs Enemies?

Sammy Carson is accused of murder, with surprising results.

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Party Piece

Sammy meets up with a jazz pianist friend, and involves Paul in a crime of considerable ingenuity.

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The Quick and the Dead

The old priests have been dead for centuries, and they can't harm anybody.

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The Man Who Forged Real Money

An African Embassy in London makes good cover, for a clever international conspiracy.

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A Family Affair

Paul takes a sea trip to Hamburg – and a nose-dive into a ruthless story of family treachery.

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The Guilty Must Die

Paul goes away to the country for a few days leaving Steve to witness a murder.

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Game, Set and Match

When Andy King, a veteran professional tennis player from Australia, arrives in Britain for another tournament, trouble isn't far behind.

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Long Ride to Red Gap

Sammy, on a car journey near Godalming, claims to have been ambushed and attacked by a band of Red Indians. And he's not joking!

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Winner Take All

Against a horseracing background, Paul finds himself involved in a takeover bid between two sides in a large criminal organisation.

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Critics, Yes! But This Is Ridiculous!

A midnight intruder into a small Scottish library rips apart several of Paul's novels. Is he settling an old score? Or do his actions have a much more menacing reason?

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