Alleyn Mysteries

Marjorie Wilde:
So, you finally decided to tell the truth?

Rosamund Grant:
What would you know about that?

Agatha Troy:
Ros couldn't have murdered Charles. She really loved him.

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
Well, I'm sorry, Troy, but in my experience love is a very powerful motive for murder.

Emily Pride:
[to Alleyn] For someone who's not exactly disgraced himself in the intelligence service, you're very transparent, Roderick.

Agatha Troy:
[Referring to Alleyn] I think he just wants you to take his advice, that's all.

Emily Pride:
Oh, men always do, but I've got to a reasonably advanced age by ignoring most of it, and you haven't got to be doing what you do by taking men's advice, have you?

Major Keith Ballantyne:
[to Alleyn] You're a little bit posh for a copper, aren't you? I've met your type before. Swanky armored regiments thinking they're cavalry with horses.

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
I'm still a copper.

Major Keith Ballantyne:
Yes. [Turns and walks away]

Brigadier:
[about Miss Pride] She's not scared of stickin' her neck out, is she?

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
She could teach a giraffe, believe me.

Emily Pride:
[to Alleyn] Nothiing has ever disturbed my sleep or spoiled my appetite.

Will Moore:
You seem to know all the answers, Inspector. Why ask the questions?

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
Time to look under a few stones to see what's underneath.

Inspector Fox:
I thought it was time for lunch.

Abel Pomeroy:
Fox, what are you looking for?

Inspector Fox:
Anything that may have been overlooked.

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
[Last lines] [Looking at a sketch of the murderer] There's our man. He was a man who created his own darkness.

Agatha Troy:
[Seeing Alleyn with a pineapple] Is that for me?

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
Flowers have a tendency to wilt.

Agatha Troy:
I haven't seen one of these in years. Perhaps I'l use it in a still life.

Fenella Cairnes:
[Dramatically] I'll say no more, but there's badness in this house. [as she goes out the door] You'll see.

Agatha Troy:
[Unimpressed by the dramatics] Fenella, you did that very well.

Millamant Ancred:
I gave up the theater for him. It's still in my blood.

Desdemona Ancred:
I always think that when Gladys Cooper went to Hollywood, she left a gap you could fill quite nicely, Mil.

Desdemona Ancred:
[to Alleyn] Sometomes, Chief Inspector, death comes not as an enemy but as a friend.

Dr. Maltravers:
Now, if you'l excuse me, I have one patient above ground in this boby hatch.

Inspector Fox:
He's been in more tight corners than a feather duster.

Percival Pyke Period:
It takes six-hundred years to make an English lawn and an English gentleman.

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
Sir Gerald?

Gerald Lacklander:
What?

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
[Referring to an earlier expression he used] Plain as a pike stuffed?

Gerald Lacklander:
What?

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
The identity of the Colonel's killer?

Gerald Lacklander:
[Impatient and annoyed] That disgusting little sewer rat Phinn! Use thumbscrews! Of course, he'll talk!

Gerald Lacklander:
What? My entire damn warddrobe?

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
No, just what you were wearing... what everyone was wearing when the colonel was murdered.

Lady Lacklander:
I can't think of anything more disgusting than peering over other people's mucky clothes, but if that's what you wan't. that's what you'll get.

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
But they're all holding something back.

Inspector Fox:
Yes, and this Lady L's keepin' mum about her private chat with the Colonel, and Sir Gerald [laughs]... why he looks as though he's got a ferret down his trouser... [laughs again]

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
[Tongue in cheek] I don't think Sir Gerald would notice if he had a ferret in his trousers.

Aaron Blautwicz:
I think in the land of the free I am entitled to a solicitor.

Lady Cecily O'Callaghan:
It's only my tolerance that kept our marriage and his career intact.

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
I have friends, Brer. I don't have pull.

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
If it isn't murder, somebody's been awfully careless.

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
Ask Robinson to come in, will you? And go out without making a joke.

PC Perkins:
Ah, that would be one, sir.

Nurse Jane Harben:
I loved him, but I could have killed him. Love is like that, isn't it? Close to hate... All I know is, his going has left a hole in my life... One has to be careful of holes... You can fall in them.

Inspector Fox:
[about Nurse Harben] She loved him. I sometimes wonder what women are made of.

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
They often wonder that themselves, but... so I'm told.

Sir John Phillips:
This is very irregular, Chief Inspector!

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
So is murder, Sir John.

Chief Inspector Alleyn:
[Last lines] Do you know, Brer, I sometimes think madness is an extreme kind of sanity.