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A review by we_are_all_mad_here26
Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh
3.0
Four books in and I'm getting a little impatient for Inspector Alleyn to develop a solid personality. Also it has become clear that yes, he really will have a reporter as a Watson, or maybe I should say as a Hastings.
A moment I loved between the two of them: Nigel suggests to Alleyn that they think about the case as if it were a detective novel. Who would be the suspect in a book? And Alleyn says -
"It depends on the author. If it's Agatha Christie, Miss Wade's occulted guilt drips from every page. Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter would plump for Pringle, I fancy. Inspector French would go for Ogden. Of course, Ogden, on the face of it, is the first suspect.”
So I guess it's good to know that even if Alleyn's own personality is minimal, he does enjoy reading about colleagues with a bit more character to them.
A moment I loved between the two of them: Nigel suggests to Alleyn that they think about the case as if it were a detective novel. Who would be the suspect in a book? And Alleyn says -
"It depends on the author. If it's Agatha Christie, Miss Wade's occulted guilt drips from every page. Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter would plump for Pringle, I fancy. Inspector French would go for Ogden. Of course, Ogden, on the face of it, is the first suspect.”
So I guess it's good to know that even if Alleyn's own personality is minimal, he does enjoy reading about colleagues with a bit more character to them.