Roderick Alleyn is a fictional character who first appeared in the novel A Man Lay Dead (1934). He is the policeman hero of the 32 detective novels of Ngaio Marsh. Marsh and her gentleman detective belong firmly in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, although the last Alleyn novel, Light Thickens, was published in 1982.

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