Book description
The day he got involved with Selby Brooks was a day Mike Hilton wishes
hadn’t happened. She was sleek and delectable and he, on the rebound
from a shaky marriage, succumbed all too easily to her allure. The
trouble was that Selby was a blackmailer, and blackmailers have no
friends, only nasty enemies. Her nastiest enemy of all was the notorious
‘Mr King’. He had already exercised a royal prerogative by killing a
troublesome stripper, and then he struck again - with Mike Hilton as the
fall guy. With an alibi as elusive as the murderer himself, Mike knew
he had been suckered, and what had started as an innocent affair looked
like landing him on a murder charge. ‘Europe’s most popular thriller
playwright . . . a new Durbridge thriller is an event’
Daily Telegraph
Francis Henry Durbridge was an English playwright and author born in
Hull. In 1938, he created the character Paul Temple for the BBC radio
serial Send for Paul Temple.
A crime novelist and detective, the gentlemanly Temple solved numerous
crimes with the help of Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist who later
became his wife. The character proved enormously popular and appeared in
16 radio serials and later spawned a 64-part big-budget television
series (1969-71) and radio productions, as well as a number of comic
strips, four feature films and various foreign radio productions.
Francis Durbridge also had a successful career as a writer for the
stage and screen. His most successful play, Suddenly at Home, ran in
London’s West End for over a year.
