The Tyler Mystery

Written by Francis Durbridge. From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular serials.

They inhabit a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women are chic and the men still wear cravats. And where Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard always needs Paul's elp with a tricky case.

Paul and Steve are on the case again when a police patrol car finds an abondoned Jaguar, with the strangled body of a young girl jammed into the boot.

Her name was Betty Tyler, and she had been strangled with her own scarf.

Three more murders are committed before the sleuthing coupld can produce the answer for Sir Graham Forbes ...Francis Durbridge (1912-1998) was born in Hull.

He studied English at Birmingham University and worked briefly as a stockbroker before becoming a full-time writer.

Many of his novels were originally written for radio or television, and Paul Temple is one of the most successful detective characters ever created for broadcasting.