Paul Temple

Paul Temple
First appearanceSend for Paul Temple (1938)
Created byFrancis Durbridge
Portrayed byCarl Bernard
Hugh Morton
Barry Morse
Howard Marion Crawford
Kim Peacock
Peter Coke
Anthony Hulme
John Bentley
Francis Matthews
Crawford Logan
In-universe information
GenderMale
OccupationAuthor, detective
SpouseLouise ("Steve") Temple
NationalityEnglish

Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective. With his wife Louise, affectionately known as 'Steve' in reference to her journalistic pen name 'Steve Trent', he solves whodunnit crimes through subtle, humorously articulated deduction. Always the gentleman, the strongest expletive he employs is "by Timothy!".

Created for the BBC radio serial Send for Paul Temple in 1938, the Temples featured in more than 30 BBC radio dramas, twelve serials for German radio, four British feature films, a dozen novels, and a BBC television series. A Paul Temple daily newspaper strip ran in the London Evening News for two decades.[1]

  1. ^ "Index of /OTRRLib/Library Files/P Series/Paul Temple".