A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.
John Bentley
Paul Temple
Patricia Dainton
Steve Temple
Peter Gawthorne
Sir Graham Forbes
Valentine Dyall
Bradley
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Inspector Ross
Grey Blake
Storey
Dan Jackson
Sakki the Valet
Ben Williams
Roddy Carson
Robert Urquhart
Slater
A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.
With Scotland Yard puzzled by a serial killer, and with himself already being warned off by the perpetrating “Marquis”, amateur sleuth “Paul Temple” (John Bentley) and his wife “Steve” (Patricia Dainton) are drafted in by “Sir Graham” (Peter Gawthorne) to help “Insp. Ross” (Ronald Leigh-Hunt) with the investigation. Pretty swiftly, with the body count starting to mount, they begin to become embroiled with the enigmatic Egyptologist “Sir Felix” (Christopher Lee), some ancient papyri and a vial of something mysterious. With no shortage of candidates and events become ever more menacing, the couple have to get their thinking caps on before their heads no longer need them. There’s an amiable degree of chemistry between Bentley and Temple and with a few red herrings straddling their path, the mystery unfolds steadily for just over an hour of rope climbing, dark passages and burning hay bales. I didn’t love the factotum “Sakki” (Dan Jackson) so much - a sort of Mantan Moreland without the mischief or the charm and the ending is all a bit rushed, but it’s a passable afternoon watch for budding criminologists.
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