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When a full series finally came to screen three years later, Simon Williams was unavailable, and the role of Alleyn was filled by Patrick Malahide, while Simons and Lang reprised their roles. Over the course of two series, eight episodes were broadcast, each focusing on a separate novel in the series.
Patrick Gerald Duggan (born 24 March 1945), [1] known professionally as Patrick Malahide, is a British actor of stage and screen.His acting credits include The New Avengers (1976), ITV Playhouse (1977), The Eagle of the Ninth (1977), Sweeney 2 (1978), Comfort and Joy (1984), The Singing Detective (1986), A Month in the Country (1987), Minder (1979–1988), Middlemarch (1994), The Inspector ...
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.
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]
DCI Roderick Alleyn (later DCS) – Ngaio Marsh (played by Simon Williams and Patrick Malahide in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries) Chief Inspector W. R. Allison – The Brighton Strangler (played by Miles Mander) Detective John Anthony – Kingston's Finest (played by himself) Inspector Arnz – House of Frankenstein (played by Lionel Atwill)
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 probably a collegial nod from Christie. [6]
This novel was adapted in 1994 for the television series The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries, with Patrick Malahide as Roderick Alleyn and Belinda Lang as Agatha Troy. [7] The island (Scottish in the feature-length film) was renamed from Portcarrow to Portcarrick, and the action took place in the 1940s; the screenplay was by T.R. Bowen.
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.