From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in another of BBC radio’s most popular series. They inhabited a complicated world of chilled cocktails and fast vehicles, where the females were chic and the guys wore cravats – a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Backyard, usually needed Paul’s help along with his most recent tricky case. With this adventure, Paul Temple is called directly into investigate the about Paul Temple And The Vandyke Affair disappearance from the Desmond baby, as well as the ‘Sitter-In’ Miss Millicent. When they visit Mary Desmond she is, understandably, very annoyed – it’s recently been a week since her eighteenth-month-old daughter vanished. The just clue is certainly a telephone message remaining in Miss Millicent’s handwriting: ‘A Mr Vandyke telephoned, he remaining no message’. Nevertheless, no-one understands who this strange Mr Vandyke is definitely… This audio release also includes the BBC Radio 4 program THE AIR Detectives: ‘Send for Paul Temple’, an affectionate go through the indomitable couple team, Paul and Steve Temple. It features a special interview using the definitive Paul Temple, Peter Coke, and rediscovered classic recordings.