Francis Durbridge

Durbridge, Francis.

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> **Francis Henry Durbridge** was born in Hull, Yorkshire, in 1912 and was educated at Bradford Grammar School. He was encouraged at an early age to write by his English teacher and went on to read English at Birmingham University. Whilst an undergraduate he started to develop the radio play format for which he first became known. At the age of twenty one he sold a play to the BBC and continued to write following his graduation whilst working as a stockbroker's clerk. >In 1938, by this time writing full time, 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. >Durbridge's style was very much in the mode of the earlier 'Golden Age' middle class amateur detectives. The first book, *Send for Paul Temple*, was written with John Thewes as the novelisation of a radio serial. Many others followed and they were hugely successful until the last of the series was completed in 1968. In 1969, the Paul Temple series was adapted for television and four of the adventures, prior to this, had been adapted for cinema. He also invented a new character, Tim Frazer, an undercover agent who appeared in both novels and as a TV series. >Francis Durbridge also wrote for the stage and continued doing so up until 1991, when *Sweet Revenge* was completed. Additionally, he wrote over twenty other well received novels, most of which were on the general subject of crime. The last, *Fatal Encounter*, was published after his death in 1998.

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Portrait of Alison (Scripts of the Television Serial)
Representative edition published 2022
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Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery (Scripts of the Eight Part Radio Serial)
Representative edition published 2022
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Beware of Johnny Washington
Representative edition published 2017
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Paul Temple Intervenes
Representative edition published 2015
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Send for Paul Temple Again!
Representative edition published 2015
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Send for Paul Temple
Representative edition published 2015
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News of Paul Temple
Representative edition published 2015
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Paul Temple and the Front Page Men
Representative edition published 2015
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Paul Temple and the Harkdale Robbery
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Paul Temple and the Margo Mystery
Representative edition published 2015
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Send for Paul Temple
Representative edition published 2015
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Paul Temple and the Madison Case
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Tim Frazer again
Representative edition published 2013
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Paul Temple And The Gregory Affair
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The Passenger
Representative edition published 2012
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A Game of Murder
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Bat out of hell
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The desperate people
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The pig-tail murder
Representative edition published 2012
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The World of Tim Frazer
Representative edition published 2012
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My wife Melissa
Representative edition published 2012
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Paul Temple And Steve
Representative edition published 2011
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A Case For Paul Temple
Representative edition published 2011
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Paul Temple Intervenes
Representative edition published 2011
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