Dead to the World: Based on Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery

Dead to the World: Based on Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery
Francis Durbridge

This novelisation of the radio serial Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery also includes a Paul Temple short story, ‘The Ventriloquist’s Doll’.

Photographer and amateur detective Philip Holt is asked to investigate the unexplained murder of an American student at an English university. With a postcard signed ‘Christopher’ and the boy’s father’s missing signet ring as his only leads, Holt’s investigation soon snowballs into forgery, blackmail, smuggling … and more murder.

Dead to the World is Francis Durbridge’s novelisation of his radio serial Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery, rewriting the Paul and Steve Temple characters as Philip Holt and his secretary Ruth Sanders. This new edition is introduced by bibliographer Melvyn Barnes and includes the Paul Temple Christmas story THE VENTRILOQUIST’S DOLL.

FRANCIS DURBRIDGE

Dead to the World

PLUS

The Ventriloquist’s Doll

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MELVYN BARNES

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First published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton 1965

‘The Ventriloquist’s Doll’ first published by Associated Newspapers

in the Daily Mail Annual for Boys and Girls 1952

Copyright © Francis Durbridge 1965

Introduction © Melvyn Barnes 2018

Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

Francis Durbridge asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780008276355

Ebook Edition © June 2018 ISBN: 9780008276362

Version: 2018-06-01

Table of Contents

Cover (#u8c165400-54ab-593d-bd84-b589d054d8cb)

Title Page (#uf0f705e7-284a-51da-b073-b0ede8cfe4b1)

Copyright (#u9f73b8d7-f5f1-5e98-bbd9-57f69f755356)

Introduction (#u028d0c1a-0b84-58bd-bbf7-dcc3af1b8778)

Chapter One (#ufc0df026-18c8-5e6a-b15b-539de2de4402)

Chapter Two (#u0339557c-929a-5a02-822a-017d84781951)

Chapter Three (#u01eadf5f-0544-567c-97ee-95cc8a1d36d6)

Chapter Four (#ua3247843-53a9-5f47-8a08-883f9b11e2d2)

Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

The Ventriloquist’s Doll (#litres_trial_promo)