![]() ![]() ![]() However, no-one knows who this mysterious Mr. The only clue is a telephone message left in Miss Millicent's handwriting: 'A Mr. When they visit Mary Desmond, she is, understandably, very upset - it's already been a week since her eighteenth-month-old daughter vanished. In this adventure, Paul Temple is called in to investigate the disappearance of the Desmond baby and the 'Sitter-In', Miss Millicent. He dislikes people who always have "ideas" for plots women who ask him if he writes under his own name "hot" music and oysters. Outside his work, Temple is alleged to like fishing and collecting first editions the music of Beethoven, Debussy and Jerome Kern the plays of Noël Coward the lyrics of Cole Porter and, of course, dry martinis. Temple has been in the detection business ever since. Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, was so impressed with his handling of it that he invited him to intervene in the mysterious affair of the Knave of Diamonds. While on holiday in Cornwall he became accidentally involved in the notorious Tenworthy case. He was educated at Rugby and Magdalen College, Oxford, and from age of 22 earned his living as a writer of detective novels. ![]() The famous Paul Temple was born in Ontario, Canada, son of the late Lt.-General Ian Temple, and went to England at an early age. ![]()
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