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The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries is a British detective television series, broadcast on BBC1, which was adapted from nine of the novels by Dame Ngaio Marsh, featuring the character Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. The pilot episode was shown in 1990, with Simon Williams playing the part of Alleyn.
Roderick Alleyn (pronounced "Allen") is a fictional character who first appeared in 1934. [1] He is the policeman hero of the 32 detective novels of Ngaio Marsh.Marsh and her gentleman detective belong firmly in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, although the last Alleyn novel, Light Thickens, was published in 1982.
Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn is on the hunt for Colombo Dmitri, a well-known London caterer who blackmails his wealthy clients. Mrs. Halcut-Hackett tells Alleyn about her "friend" who is being blackmailed and has been instructed to leave a purse full of money in a sofa at a concert hall.
The following is the list of Mystery! episodes in order by season. ... The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries: Artists in Crime (UK Pilot) Inspector Morse, Series V (UK ...
A television episode in 1968 had Michael Allinson in the lead role. [citation needed] The novel was televised in 1990 as the pilot for the BBC TV series The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, starring Simon Williams as Inspector Alleyn.
In 1993, Kevin Laffan adapted the novel for The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries. It aired as episode 3 in series 1, and Patrick Malahide portrayed Roderick Alleyn. [5] In Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia, one of the characters, Nurse Leatheran, talks about having just read a murder mystery set in a nursing home. As an admirer of Marsh, it was ...
Final Curtain is a 1947 crime novel by the New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh, the fourteenth in her series of mysteries featuring Scotland Yard detective Roderick Alleyn. It was published in Britain by Collins and in the USA by Little, Brown. The plot features the world of actors, and Alleyn's wife, the artist Agatha Troy, has a main role in the ...
Enter a Murderer is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh.This is her second novel to feature Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1935.The novel is the first of the theatrical novels for which Marsh was to become famous, taking its title from a line of stage direction in Macbeth.