Roderick Alleyn (pronounced "Allen") is a fictional character who first appeared in 1934. He is the policeman hero of the 32 detective novels of Ngaio...
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character Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. The pilot episode was shown in 1990, with Simon Williams playing the part of Alleyn. Two series followed in 1993...
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Margery Allingham. She is known primarily for her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police (London)...
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A Man Lay Dead (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1934. The plot concerns a murder committed...
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Artists in Crime (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
sixth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1938. The plot concerns the murder of an artists' model; Alleyn's love interest Agatha...
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Final Curtain (novel) (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
detective Roderick Alleyn. It was published in Britain by Collins and in the USA by Little, Brown. The plot features the world of actors, and Alleyn's wife...
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Colour Scheme (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twelfth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1943 by Collins Crime Club. The novel takes...
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Death at the Bar (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
the ninth to feature her series detective Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard and published in 1940 by Collins (UK) and Little,...
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appeared in an episode of Get Some In!. In 1977, he starred as Inspector Roderick Alleyn in the Ngaio Marsh Theatre; four adaptations of the crime and mystery...
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Detective (1986), Middlemarch (1994), and played Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Roderick Alleyn in the 1993–94 series. His films include Comfort and Joy (1984), A...
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Death in Ecstasy (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
Marsh, the fourth to feature her series detective, Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard. It was first published in 1936. When lovely Cara...
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Death in a White Tie (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1938. The plot concerns the murder of a British lord after a party. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn is...
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Enter a Murderer (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
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...
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Last Ditch (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1977. The plot concerns drug smuggling in the Channel Islands, and features Alleyn's son, Ricky...
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Hand in Glove (novel) (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-second novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1962. The story concerns a high-society...
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Surfeit of Lampreys (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the tenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1941. The novel was published as Death...
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1965), English operatic baritone Rodric Williams, British solicitor Roderick Alleyn, a fictional detective created by Ngaio Marsh. Rodrick Heffley, a fictional...
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Opening Night (novel) (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the sixteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1951. It was published in the United States...
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Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Thorndyke, Philip Trent, Sir Henry Merrivale, Roderick Alleyn, Father Brown, Albert Campion, C. Auguste Dupin, Sir John Appleby,...
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Dead Water (novel) (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-third novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1964. The plot concerns a murder in a small...
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Group captain Gilmore, Minder, and the pilot of The Alleyn Mysteries, in which he played Roderick Alleyn. He also was a guest star on the television series...
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Scales of Justice (novel) (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
detective novel by Ngaio Marsh. It is the eighteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1955. With a classic 'Golden Age' crime...
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Overture to Death (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the eighth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1939. The plot concerns a murder during...
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Spinsters in Jeopardy (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
seventeenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1953. The novel is set in Southern France, where Alleyn, his painter wife Agatha...
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Vintage Murder (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
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...
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Master of the College of God's Gift in Dulwich Roderick Alleyn, a fictional police detective Thomas Alleyn (3rd Master of Dulwich College) (died c. 1668)...
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by Jack Bernstein Karamchand - created by Anil Chaudhary Inspector Roderick Alleyn – created by Ngaio Marsh Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson – from the...
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Black as He's Painted (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
28th to feature Roderick Alleyn. The plot concerns the newly independent fictional African nation of Ng'ombwana, whose president and Alleyn went to school...
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Grave Mistake (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirtieth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1978. The plot concerns the supposed suicide...
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Died in the Wool (category Roderick Alleyn novels)
detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1945. The novel is set in New Zealand,...
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