Roderick Alleyn mysteries
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
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194 pages ; 20 cm.
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When a party participant at a Murder Game party actually comes up dead, Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called to the case, and discovers an intricate puzzle of betrayal.
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2012, ©1935
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201 pages ; 21 cm
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The crime was committed on stage at the theatre, when an unloaded gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using blackmail instead of talent; the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage was set for one of Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn's most baffling cases.
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
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224 pages ; 21 cm
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"For one unlucky Member of Parliament, a simple visit to the hospital (the 'nursing home' of the title) proves fatal. But as Inspector Alleyn will discover, any number of people had reason to help the gentleman to his just reward, including the sour surgeon, his besotted nurse, a resentful wife, and a cabinet full of political rivals."--Page 4 of cover.
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
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273 pages ; 21 cm.
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When a member of a wealthy cult, the House of the Sacred Flame, dies "accidentally" after drinking the ritual wine during a ceremony, Inspector Roderick Alleyn must discover who dosed the wine with the fatal prussic acid.
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2012]
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272 pages ; 20 cm.
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Inspector Roderick Alleyn finds his vacation cut short when a famous producer ends up killed by a wine bottle, leading Alleyn to investigate the actors of a theater company, as well as the dead man's wife.
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 6
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In the movies, it's known as a "meet cute." But for Inspector Alleyn and Miss Agatha Troy, it's more like irritation: On the ship back to England, she finds him tedious and dull; he thinks she's a bohemian cliché. They may be destined for romance, but there's a murder in the way: No sooner has Alleyn settled in to his mother's house, eager for a relaxing end to his vacation, then he gets a call that a model has been stabbed at the artists' community...
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2012
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323 pages ; 21 cm.
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Ah, the London Debutante Season: Giggles and tea-dances, white dresses and inappropriate romances. And much too much champagne. And, apparently, a blackmailer, which is where Inspector Roderick Alleyn comes in. The social whirl is decidedly not Alleyn s environment, so he brings in an assistant in the form of Lord Bunchy Gospell, everybody s favorite uncle. Bunchy is more than loveable; he s also got some serious sleuthing skills. But before he can...
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 8
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It's murder in the little English village, but the two local spinsters, Miss Campanula, the victim, and Miss Prentice, her friend who may have been the intended victim, are not exactly the beloved little old ladies of song and story. They were (and are) waspish, gossiping snobs, passionate only about their own narrowly defined religion ... and, perhaps, about the local vicar. But could they have been sufficiently unpleasant to provoke a murderer?
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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274 pages ; 21 cm
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It's true, darts is nobodys idea of a low-risk amusement, yet it is rarely lethal. Tell that to the famous barrister who was enjoying a pint at the Plume of Feathers pub, and is now residing at the morgue. Inspector Roderick Alleyn has a growing hunch that the peculiar accident can be traced to an old legal case.
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Death of a peer , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 10
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2013.
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341 pages ; 21 cm.
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The unspeakably wealthy (and generally unspeakable) Jonathan Royal has decided to throw a party and, just for fun, has studded the guest-list with people who loathe one another. When a blizzard imprisons them all in Royal s country house, murder ensues. In true Christie-esque tradition, there are nearly as many suspects as there are potential victims. Eventually, Inspector Alleyn makes his way through the snow to put things right.
12) Colour scheme
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 12
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It was a horrible death-- Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knows that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies he'd thwarted-- if he wasn't a spy himself.
13) Died in the wool
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2013.
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251 pages ; 21 cm.
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"World War II rages on, and Inspector Alleyn continues as the Special Branch's eyes and ears in New Zealand. While his primary brief is spy-catching, he's also happy to help with old-fashioned policing. Flossie Rubrick, an influential Member of Parliament and the wife of a sheep farmer, is murdered. Had she made political enemies? Had a mysterious legacy prompted her death? Or could the shadowy world of international espionage have intruded on this...
14) Final curtain
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 14
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"A delicious and classic country-house mystery. Well, country-castle. The lord of the manor is Sir Henry Ancred, a celebrated Shakespearian actor (and pompous bore), who has arranged to have his portrait painted by none other than Agatha Troy, wife of Inspector Roderick Alleyn. She's rather glad to be stepping out of Alleyn's shadow, so much so that when Ancred is killed at his own birthday party, Troy at first tries sleuthing on her own. But she's...
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A wreath for Rivera , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 15
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2013.
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224 pages ; 21 cm.
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"A shabby, fourth-rate theater, the Vulcan is not where Martyn Tarne hoped to work, when she moved from New Zealand to London in hope of a glittering acting career. But a girl has to eat, so Martyn takes a job as dresser to the Vulcan's leading lady. This provides her with a ringside seat to the backstage circus: the aging alcoholic actor, the waspish playwright, the ingénue on the make, the surprisingly gracious grande dame. There is, of course,...
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Spinsters in jeopardy , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 17
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Scales of justice , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 18
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Death of a fool , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 19
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Singing in the shrouds , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 20
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False scent , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 21
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22) Hand in glove
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
[1962]
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243 p. 21 cm.
23) Dead water
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
1999
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367 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Killer Dolphin , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 24
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Clutch of constables , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 25
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When in Rome , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 26
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Tied up in tinsel , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 27
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Black as he's painted , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 28
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Last ditch , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 29
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Grave mistake , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 30
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31) Photo finish
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 31
Pub. Date
c1980
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252 p. ; 22 cm.
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Light thickens , Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 32
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Roderick Alleyn mysteries volume 33
Pub. Date
2018.
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293 pages ; 20 cm
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Inspector Alleyn just wants to write a letter to his wife, but World War II, for one, keeps intruding. It's war-work, after all, that has brought Alleyn to this seedy hospital in New Zealand's hinterlands, and it's the war that has left the hospital swimming in convalescing soldiers - noisy, often drunk, and always over-interested in the nurses. Nor is the weather helping. A storm has killed the electrical power, leaving Alleyn, the soldiers, the...