Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
BBC (ended 1994)
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Season 3
- Ep 1Artists in Crime12/23/90
Alleyn investigates murder in an artists' colony, when model Sonia Gluck is mysteriously stabbed to death while posing for a life class.
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''Before he can catch the killer, Alleyn falls heavily for his prime suspect, the high-stepping painter Agatha Troy, whom he had met once before on a passenger liner sailing home from the South Pacific. Unhappily for Alleyn, Troy looks down on him and his policeman's life.''''Assisted by the plain-speaking Inspector Fox, after a second death Alleyn finds he is dealing with blackmail as well as murder.moreless
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Season 2
- Ep 5Death in a White Tie5/16/93
Lord Gospell is found murdered during a coming-out ball at the house of the well-known hostess Evelyn Carrados, and Alleyn has to find the killer. ''''To the horror of Lady Carrados, it appears that the murderer may not have been on her guest list. Then Alleyn finds out that a blackmailer has been at work. Was Lord Gospell being blackmailed? And, if so, why was he killed, and by whom?moreless - Ep 4Dead Water4/1/94
A war of words breaks out on the Scottish island of Portacarrick after young Wally McNabb's warts appear to be cured by the waters of the Pixie Falls, a local spring with legendary powers.
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''Miss Emily Pride is the lady laird of the island, while her rival Miss Elspeth Cost wants to turn Portnacarrick into a health centre to compete with Lourdes but is accused of crass commercialization of the village. Then someone tries to kill Miss Pride, bringing her old friend Alleyn to the island to investigate the murder attempt. He finds adultery and bitter sexual rivalry.
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''Alleyn has just finished a secondment to the British Army, so he is glad of the trip to Scotland - and also the help of Agatha Troy, who is becoming more willing to take an interest in his affairs.moreless - Ep 3Scales of Justice8/29/94
Alleyn travels to the far from sleepy village of Swevenings, where a man has been found bludgeoned to death by a stream. The dead man, an old soldier, was planning the publication of the war memoirs of his friend Sir Harold Lacklander, and Alleyn needs to find out who was most threatened by this. Apart from petty vendettas, he finds a femme fatale and a retired soldier whose main pastimes are whisky and archery.moreless - Ep 2Scales of Justice8/29/94
- Ep 1Hand in Glove1/10/94
Alleyn has a murder case on his hands when the body of Harold Cartell is found in a ditch not far from the country house of Percival Pyke-Period, near the sleepy village of Chalfont Green. In the village, Alleyn finds an angry artist who is determined to run to earth a forger who is faking her paintings. But is this connected in any way with the dead body? It soon appears that several people had a motive to kill Harold Cartell.moreless
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Season 1
- Ep 5The Nursing Home Murder4/25/93
Sir Derek O'Callaghan, the British Home Secretary, receives death threats before he goes into a nursing home for an operation. When he dies unexpectedly, his wife believes he has been murdered. Alleyn investigates the home where the cabinet minister died, and he finds things are indeed not as they should be, as at least two of the staff had a motive for killing their patient: a nurse O'Callaghan had taken advantage of and cast off, and the doctor who loved her. But was one of them responsible for the death threats, too?moreless - Ep 4Nursing Home Murder4/25/03
- Ep 4Final Curtain5/2/93
Alleyn's girlfriend Agatha Troy has a commission to paint the portrait of Sir Henry Ancred, a famous actor, at his house in the country, Ancreton Manor. Troy finds Sir Henry far from well, and before long she sends for Alleyn in his own professional capacity, to investigate her subject's sudden death. ''''Alleyn finds a mixed-up tale of anonymous letters and arguments over the dead man's will - and he decides to have Sir Henry's body exhumed.moreless - Ep 3Death in a White Tie5/16/93
- Ep 2Death at the Bar5/9/93
A well-known barrister dies in a bizarre incident at a village pub, seemingly killed by poison on the tip of a dart in the course of a bar-room trick.
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''Alleyn has to deal with a mystery which is not at all what it seems to be. Was the death murder, and, if so, what prompted it? Everyone who was in the bar insists the death was an accident, but surprisingly most of them also prove to have a motive for murder.moreless - Ep 1A Man Lay Dead4/18/93
In the spring of 1948, Sir Hubert Handesley livens up a week-end party at his country house, Frantock Hall, with a jolly game of murder - but Charles Rankin, a guest who brought with him a valuable dagger, really does end up dead.
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''When Inspector Alleyn of Scotland Yard is called in, he finds he has to solve more than one mystery, as some valuable things, including a famous and silver chalice, have disappeared without trace. Is he dealing with a murder by thieves, a theft to cover a murder, or two quite separate crimes? Alleyn's new friend Agatha Troy is among the guests, and it seems she disapproves of his methods.moreless
