What begins as a routine case turns out to be the most momentous of Roderick Alleyn’s career. For before he can corner the killer, his heart is captured by one of the suspects — the flashing-eyed painter Agatha Troy, who has nothing but scorn for Alleyn.
Death was served well-chilled and Inspector Roderick Alleyn must uncork this mystery and uncover a devious killer.
It was an ecstasy that ended in death after Cara Quayne drank the ritual wine. Discovering how the fatal cyanide got into the bizarre group’s wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard’s Inspector Roderick Alleyn.
When Britain’s Home Secretary complained of abdominal pains, it seemed like a simple case of appendicitis. But minutes after his operation, the ill-fated politician lay dead on the table. When Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to dissect the situation, he finds many a likely suspect, including a vengeful surgeon, a lovelorn nurse, an unhappy wife, and political foes.
Detective Eve Dallas remembers Julie Dockport all too well, being personally responsible for her incarceration nearly ten years ago. And now, let out on good behavior, she still has nothing but bad intentions. It appears she wants to meet Dallas again — in a reunion neither will forget.
The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed — a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn’t intended to kill her. Lieutenant Eve Dallas hasn’t much to go on, but she’ll get him . . .
The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn′s most baffling cases when an untalented actor using bribery to achieve stardom is shot on stage.
A house party gone wrong brings Inspector Roderick Alleyn to investigate the murder, the alibis, a missing butler and a seditious puzzle.
Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency.
When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story.