Shortly afterwards, two robberies are committed, and on each occasion a card is left at the scene bearing the words "The Front Page Men." The police link these thefts to several high-profile kidnapping cases - and then the murders begin. When detective novel The Front Page Men is published, it is a smash hit - not least because no-one knows the true identity of the author, the mysterious Andrea Fortune. In this one, read by Buffy and Little Britain star Anthony Head, the dapper detective is faced with a dangerous gang who will stop at nothing to achieve their aims. The radio serials proved so popular that Francis Durbridge was inspired to write a succession of novels featuring Paul Temple. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Temple's help with his latest tricky case. Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve made their first appearance on BBC Radio in 1938.
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