Inspector Alleyn Mysteries: Set 1

Shooting? Stabbing? Poison? Follow the clues in five elegant crime puzzlers with Scotland Yard?s Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn. The younger son of a titled family, Alleyn moves among the aristocracy with subtle persistence and a disarming sense of humor.
Join him as he solves five classic murder mysteries set in the stately homes, London ballrooms and Devon fishing villages of post-World-War-I England. In Death at the Bar, cyanide meant for the rats kills an eminent barrister, instead. A blackmailer waltzes among the debutantes and chaperones of the new London season in Death in a White Tie. What sinister theme connects a stolen silver chalice, an ornate medieval dagger, and murder in A Man Lay Dead? Who gave the lethal injection to a prominent Cabinet minister in The NursingHome Murder?and why? And when a grand old man of the theatre announces his plans to marry a young and glamorous beauty, which disinherited relative brings down the Final Curtain?
As seen on PBS Mystery! Based on the bestselling novels of Ngaio Marsh, and starring Patrick Malahide (The Singing Detective).

Dame Ngaio Marsh named her best-known character as a compliment to her father, who attended a school founded by the Elizabethan tragedian Edward Alleyn.