Surfeit of Lampreys [SEP] series
Surfeit of Lampreys
Surfeit of Lampreys is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the tenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1941. The plot concerns the murder of a British peer, a theme to which Marsh would return; the novel was published as "Death of a Peer" in the United States.
Its title is a reference to the manner by which Henry I of England is said to have succumbed to food poisoning, as well as the surname of the first murder victim
Patrick Malahide as Alleyn.
In the 1990s the BBC made radio adaptations of "Surfeit of Lampreys", "A Man Lay Dead", "Opening Night", and "When in Rome" starring Jeremy Clyde as Inspector Alleyn.
Ngaio Marsh co-wrote a 1951 episode "Night at the Vulcan" of the Philco Television Playhouse; and appeared as herself in the sixth episode "The Central Problem" in a television series of the unfinished Charles Dickens mystery novel "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" 
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