![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1938's "Artists in Crime," adapted for the BBC by T. No doubt because the character of Alleyn tended to be so distantly proper, Marsh often wickedly dumped him into bizarre plots, stuffed with enough red herrings to suggest an underlying practical joke. Some 30 more would follow before her death in 1982 at age 83. She wrote her first mystery novel, "A Man Lay Dead," in 1931. "Mystery" confronts a puzzle: Can a detective whose most prominent characteristic is that he has no prominent characteristics make the always-treacherous jump from printed page to television drama? Can the rather colorless Chief Inspector Roderick (Rory) Alleyn find a series niche for himself among such established eccentrics as Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot and Inspector Morse? "Artists in Crime," a two-parter starting tonight at 9 on Channel 13, offers tantalizing but inconclusive answers.Īlleyn is the creation of Ngaio Marsh, a New Zealander who settled in London in the late 1920's with an eye toward an acting and directing career, especially in anything having to do with Shakespeare. ![]()
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