Francis Durbridge - Another Woman’s Shoes - Based on Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case

If the mid-sixties’ transformation of Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case into the standalone Another Woman’s Shoes disappointed any Durbridge enthusiasts, it isn’t borne out by the sales either at home or abroad. The book was successfully published throughout Europe – in Germany as Die Schuhe , in Italy as La scarpa che mancava sempre , in the Netherlands as Wie de schoen past wordt vermoord , in Spain as Tres zapatos de mujer and in Poland as Buty modelki . It would prompt Durbridge to apply his art of recycling one more time with his novel Dead to the World (1967), which had begun life as the 1951 radio serial Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery before becoming a non-Temple book with new characters.

The re-publication of Another Woman’s Shoes and Dead to the World , titles that have not been available for half a century, completes the reprinting of all sixteen novels and novelisations featuring or based on the Paul Temple radio series (plus the welcome revival of that rarity, Back Room Girl ). Also included in this volume is the bonus short story ‘Paul Temple and the Nightingale’, which first appeared in the Associated Newspapers miscellany volume Late Extra in 1952. It provided Durbridge’s fans with an extra tale that kept his central character in the public eye and is another demonstration of the author’s prolific output in the post-war years.

MELVYN BARNES

September 2017

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