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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.
There, Alleyn finds the grotesquely disfigured corpse of Garcia who seems to have ingested nitric acid by force. With the help of Inspector Fox and journalist Nigel Bathgate, Alleyn checks everyone's alibis one last time. In the epilogue, Alleyn explains all to Troy and his mother.
Her television appearances include The Naked Civil Servant, Reilly, Ace of Spies, Mr. Palfrey of Westminster, Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, The House of Eliott, Boon, Lovejoy, Pie in the Sky, Holby City, New Tricks, Spooks and Rosemary & Thyme. Chappell appeared in Ken Russell's The Devils, The Virgin and the Gipsy, Low Tide, and Basic Instinct 2.
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.
BBC One broadcast an adaptation of the novel on 9 May 1993 as part of the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries. The episode was directed by Michael Winterbottom and starred Patrick Malahide as Roderick Alleyn. The main deviation from Marsh in Alfred Shaughnessy's script was the suggestion of a homosexual relationship between two male characters. [7]
Vintage Murder is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the fifth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1937.Based in New Zealand, the plot centres on a travelling theatrical troupe and prominently features Doctor Rangi Te Pokiha, a Māori, and a "tiki" a Māori fertility pendant.
The series adapted three Alleyn novels that were set in New Zealand (Vintage Murder, [2] Colour Scheme, [3] and Died in the Wool [4]) along with the London-set Opening Night. [5] The last mentioned featured a major character from New Zealand coming to England to work in the theatre. The series was originally screened on Television New Zealand.