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Roderick Alleyn |
Roderick Alleyn is a fictional character: the hero and detective from Ngaio Marsh's novels.
A "gentleman policeman", in a style later used by P. D. James for her detective Adam Dalgliesh, he is a senior figure in the CID.
In earlier novels, he is single, later meeting and marrying Agatha Troy, a famous oil-painter. They have one son, Ricky, who is the protagonist of one of her last novels, Last Ditch, which also features his policeman father.
Marsh mentions in an introduction that she named her detective Alleyn after Alleyn's School, where her father had been a pupil.
Four of the novels (Colour Scheme, Died in the Wool, Final Curtain and Opening Night) were adapted for New Zealand television in the 1970s, where Alleyn was played by George Baker, and others with British settings were adapted for British television in the 1990s. In the second series, Alleyn was played by Simon Williams in the first story, Artists in Crime, and then by Patrick Malahide in eight more tales.
DVD Release
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (the 1990s British productions) are available on DVD as a four disc pack.
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