![]() George Kyriakides’ handsome production designs are correct and, as they should be, oppressive. Cullen’s Ancred is unsurprising, but Samantha Glenn as a peculiar child offers a good, disturbing characterization. Malahide’s Alleyn plays it suave and correct, and Lang’s Troy is efficient. The interps are extravagantly blatant, intense without being involving as a result, it doesn’t much matter whodunit. The lucky woman whom our inspector is struck by is an artist named Agatha Troy. These essays were printed in The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh (1989), which was edited and introduced by Douglas G. Ngaio Marsh was one of the iconic mystery writers of the Golden Age of. ![]() ![]() ![]() And does just that.Īlleyn takes over at the castle, with expert mental surgery and an upper-class attitude, and comes up with the answer.ĭirector Martyn Friend moves methodically among the large cast of characters, but those involved in the case are either lamebrains or eccentrics supposedly repping legit English actors’ behavior offstage. Since it is the first week of Tuesday Night Bloggers posts on Ngaio Marsh I have decided to look at a couple of essays Marsh wrote on Inspector Alleyn, Agatha Troy and the origins of her writing career. Seems Ancred has a chorus girl (Emma Amos) living with him, and though Ancred reads his latest will that spreads his estate among his survivors, someone’s still worried enough to kill. Painter Troy, asked to do his portrait, is the only outsider, and she reports the case’s background to Alleyn (and the audience) so he’ll investigate it. ![]()
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