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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.
Overture to Death. Followed by. Surfeit of Lampreys. Death at the Bar is a crime novel by Ngaio Marsh, the ninth to feature her series detective Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard and published in 1940 by Collins (UK) and Little, Brown (USA). The novel was adapted for television in 1993.
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.
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.
Ngaio Marsh. Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh DBE (/ ˈnaɪoʊ / NY-oh; [1] 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand mystery writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. [2] As a crime writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Marsh is known as one of the "Queens of ...
In 1993, he directed an episode of the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries; Love Lies Bleeding, a television film written by Ronan Bennett about a convicted IRA member on a 24-hour home leave from prison in Belfast; [10] and The Mad Woman in the Attic, the pilot of Jimmy McGovern's mystery series Cracker. [11]
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 Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a British crime drama television series that aired on BBC One from 12 March 2001 to 1 June 2008, consisting of six series and 24 episodes. . The protagonist, Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton (Nathaniel Parker), who is assigned to Scotland Yard, finds himself paired with Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers (Sharon Smal