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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.
John 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The "latter half", [ 1 ] "second book", [ 2 ] or "closing part" [ 3 ] of John's Gospel commences with this chapter.
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.
Like the previous novel in the series (Colour Scheme) the story takes place during World War II when Alleyn is doing counter-espionage work. The format of the book is somewhat unusual, in that Alleyn does not arrive at the scene of the murder until fifteen months after it has taken place, and much of his detecting is founded upon stories told ...
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.
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.
Singing in the Shrouds is a detective novel by New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh; it is the twentieth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1959. The plot concerns a serial killer who is on a voyage from London to South Africa .
An event after Sword Wednesday demonstrates this. Dame Alice invites Alleyn, in a dinner jacket, to a dismally-cooked formal dinner with superb old wines from the cellar in the icy-cold, crumbling Mardian Castle. She gives Alleyn the old family document describing the past mumming ritual, with a clue to who has murdered William Andersen, and why.