Nevertheless with the traitor within Scotland Yard still at large it seems that even when the criminals are finally cornered there could still be a way out for them… In the midst of this there is also Steve Trent, a young female reporter who soon teams up with Temple to seek justice for her brothers’ death and she is essential in providing background information to the case, so essential that her life is endangered many times. Events seem to be centring round a country inn, yet it soon becomes apparent as more people die and further coups are staged that there is a mole within Scotland Yard, keeping the criminals one step ahead. This is a move Scotland Yard are reluctant to take, that is until one of their own, Superintendent Harvey, is murdered shortly after meeting up with Temple and it soon becomes more and more evident that the police are up against a substantial criminal enterprise, which is not above silencing its’ members if it looks like they will blab.īut even during this murder investigation, further robberies occur and the reader is able to view events both from the guilty and detecting parties. However, today’s book, Send for Paul Temple (1938) is Temple’s debut appearance and the newspapers are clamouring for him, a mystery novelist to help Scotland Yard solve a recent spate of diamond robberies which have been taking place in the Midlands. This is my second return to Durbridge’s Paul Temple tales, though unfortunately my last read, Paul Temple and the Front Page Men(1939), was a bit disappointing.
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