Paul Temple Intervenes. Francis Durbridge

      

      FRANCIS DURBRIDGE

      Paul Temple Intervenes

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      LONG 1944

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      Source ISBN: 978-0-00-812562-2

      Ebook Edition © June 2015 ISBN: 978-0-00-812563-9

      Version: 2015-06-05

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       CHAPTER I: On the Air

       CHAPTER II: River Patrol

       CHAPTER III: Crisis at Scotland Yard

       CHAPTER IV: The Girl Who Knew Too Much

       CHAPTER V: No Beer for Sammy Wren

       CHAPTER VI: Roger Storey Explains

      

       CHAPTER VII: Death Stalks Forard Glen

      

       CHAPTER VIII: Sir Felix Entertains

      

       CHAPTER IX: Kellaway Manor

      

       CHAPTER X: The Marquis Sends a Warning

      

       CHAPTER XI: Greensea House

      

       CHAPTER XII: Accidental Death?

      

       CHAPTER XIII: Paul Temple Keeps an Appointment

      

       CHAPTER XIV: ‘The Clockwise’

      

       CHAPTER XV: Above Suspicion

      

       CHAPTER XVI: Superintendent Bradley Goes to The Pictures

      

       CHAPTER XVII: Concerning Inspector Ross

      

       CHAPTER XVIII: The October Hotel

      

       CHAPTER XIX: Introducing The Marquis!

      

       About the Author

      

       Also in This Series

      

       About the Publisher

       CHAPTER I

       On the Air

      PAUL TEMPLE never failed to extract the utmost enjoyment from a trip to America; the inconceivable vastness of the continent with its astonishing gamut of civilisations appealed to his sensitive imagination. He was forever planning a novel of some considerable length dealing with the adventures of an Englishman in search of the hidden powers behind American life. So far, it was just an idea, just recognisable in the half-dozen random jottings in the notebook he invariably carried. And at the moment there did not seem to be much possibility of its materialisation into any substantial form. For Paul Temple was very busy indeed on his present trip to the United States.

      It had started with an abrupt summons from Colonel Randall at the Ministry of Information. The Colonel had informed Temple that a few selected lecturers were being sent to the States in an effort to render that nation rather more ‘Britain conscious.’ It was essential that these lecturers should be known to the American public, and the M.O.I. had apparently been to some trouble to discover that the sale of Paul Temple’s novels in the States had long since passed