Fine Paul Temple Novel but who wrote it?
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All Paul Temple fans know that "The Tyler Mystery" was the novel that made the fictional Paul Temple famous.
Lo and behold in 1957 (nineteen years after the first Paul Temple serial) "The Tyler Mystery" was published attributing Paul Temple as the author, another novel "East of Algiers" was published in 1959 also by Paul Temple.
In fact the authors were Francis Durbridge and Douglas Rutherford.
In the Tyler Mystery there is a subtle difference in the treatment of Paul and Steve and the way they relate to each other, it is warmer and more intimate that the rather stiff upper lip style of Durbridge, this inclines me to think Durbridge agreed the outline and Rutherford wrote the novel.
The conceit that Paul Temple wrote the novel it also is curious as it is about the novelist and his wife written in the third person.
A thoroughly enjoyable novel excellently ready by Anthony Head following up his fine reading of "Paul Temple and the Curzon Case".
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