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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781569387429
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1569387427
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Acorn Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 08, 2004
Running Time: 392 minutes
Sales Rank: 15045
Studio: Acorn Media
Editorial Review:
Description:
From the 'golden age' of the British mystery comes a hard-working Scotland Yard detective whose breeding and bearing give him unique access to the fashionable world in which these stories are set. Drawing on her love of theatre and art, New Zealand novelist Ngaio Marsh created elegant crime-puzzlers full of quirky characters with hidden agendas, all brought meticulously to life in this BBC series. The keen intelligence and subtle persistence of Chief Inspector Alleyn (Patrick Malahide, The Singing Detective) are complemented by the insights of his independent lady friend, artist Agatha Troy (Belinda Lang, To Serve Them All My Days), and the loyalty of his partner, Detective Inspector Fox (William Simons, Sergeant Cribb).
Amazon.com:
What happened to the arsenic? What about the red paint on the banister, or that horrid little book about how to embalm a corpse? Such questions are, of course, best left to Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn (Patrick Malahide) of Scotland Yard, who puts on his 'serious suit' to solve four baffling mysteries in this quartet of episodes from the exemplary BBC mystery series based on Ngaio Marsh's books. In 'A Man Lay Dying,' a weekend in the country turns deadly when the host's game of murder produces a real victim, while Alleyn investigates the theft of a rare religious artifact. In 'The Nursing Home Murder,' Alleyn dissects the death of the British Home Secretary, who has succumbed on the operating table. In 'Death at the Bar,' directed by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People), a prominent lawyer is seemingly dispatched by poison dart. 'Final Curtain,' the liveliest of the lot, features Alleyn's girlfriend, artist Agatha Troy, who enlists Alleyn to investigate the death of a venerable Shakespearean actor whose portrait she was commissioned to paint. Like Lord Peter Wimsey, Alleyn has an aristocratic background, but he sports none of the trappings, nor does he exhibit Wimsey's panache. He gets more mileage out of quizzical looks than witty banter. But while Alleyn himself may not be a sparkplug, the mysteries themselves--'seething with sinister intent,' to quote one observer--will thrill Anglophiles and mystery buffs who can't get enough of dark and stormy nights, rooms full of suspects with darting eyes, and the climactic moment when Alleyn sorts it all out, or as one very suspect gent remarks at one point, 'What an intriguing maze a policeman's mind is.' --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
The box set was a great present to myself. I enjoyed the series and hope to see more when available.
Thanks for making this available.
Helen
Rating: - Worth every penny for cozy murder fans -- details follow
Rarely have I been so pleased with a set of British mystery DVDs. This compendium of mysteries is pure treasure for those who savour the genre!
Maybe excepting one or two volumes, I've read everything that Ngaio Marsh ever wrote and I liked her Inspector Alleyn series the best. I feel certain that she'd be quite proud of these four excellent renditions of her brilliant works.
There are four mysteries here, nicely packaged and on 4 separate DVDs. They are "Death at The Bar", ... Read More
Rating: - Inspector Alleyn Series
I have always loved the British PBS series. Inspector Alleyn is drama and some light heartedness combined within a frame of a murder. I enjoy the Enlish shows because they do not get gruesome in their murders. It focuses on assertaining who did the murder, and with Inspector Alleyn's cases, it's usually within the aristocracy, which he was born to as well. Very good entertainment for the whole family.
Rating:  - A Comfortable Cozy
Been in a blue funk since Agatha Christe's TV tales dropped off the air? Now's the chance to grab a hunk of an oh-so-trendy 1940's British mystery. Inspector Alleyn can track a crook through a whole room full of blue bloods and spot a stray fingerprint right under their champagne fogged noses. No butler is left unexamined, no effete cousin goes unnoticed. Yes, it's time to gather in the drawing room to see who really done it.
Fans of a simpler, more elegant time will love this series. ... Read More
Rating:  - Disappointing
A wonderful series, but a very poor quality transfer to DVD. The picture is grainy and rapid movement on screen is jerky.
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