Bat Out of Hell Author:Francis Durbridge Wealthy estate agent Geoffrey Stewart has been murdered by his younger wife Diana, in partnership with her lover Mark Paxton. But their plan to secure his fortune and make a new life together is thrown wildly off-course when Geoffrey's carefully stored body disappears-and Diana receives a phone call asking her to meet her deceased husband. T... more »his standalone 1972 thriller, from the creator of fictional crime writer and amateur sleuth Paul Temple, was first dramatized as a 1966 BBC television miniseries of the same name.« less