Inspector Roderick Alleyn

Roderick Alleyn is a fictional gentleman detective  created by New Zealand writer, Ngaio Marsh.

March wrote 32 books featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn between 1934 and 1982 (her death). An unfinished manuscript was published in 2018, Money in the Morgue, with Stella Duffy. 

Marsh mentions that she named her detective Alleyn after the Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn, founder of Dulwich College, where her father had been a pupil. She started a novel with Alleyn in 1931, after reading a detective story by Agatha Christie or Dorothy L. Sayers on a wet Saturday afternoon in London. She wondered if she could write something in the genre. So she bought six exercise books and a pencil at a local stationer and started A Man Lay Dead, involving a Murder Game, which was then popular at English weekend parties.

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cover Title: Photo Finish Authors: Ngaio Marsh Rating: 0 Hits: 2157
cover Title: Died In The Wool Authors: Ngaio Marsh Rating: 0 Hits: 2175
cover Title: Death of a Peer Authors: Ngaio Marsh Rating: 0 Hits: 2199
cover Title: Death and the Dancing Footman Authors: Ngaio Marsh Rating: 0 Hits: 2222
cover Title: Death At The Bar Authors: Ngaio Marsh Rating: 0 Hits: 2223
cover Title: The Nursing Home Murder Authors: Ngaio Marsh Rating: 0 Hits: 2224
cover Title: Death of a Fool Authors: Ngaio Marsh Rating: 0 Hits: 2227
cover Title: Tied Up In Tinsel Authors: Ngaio Marsh Rating: 0 Hits: 2228
cover Title: Night At The Vulcan Authors: Ngaio Marsh Rating: 0 Hits: 2232
cover Title: Scales Of Justice Authors: Ngaio Marsh Rating: 0 Hits: 2235
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