‘ I haven’t the foggiest idea who did it’ - Inspector Alleyn Nagio Marsh creates an unconventional detective figure with Chief – Inspector Alleyn, whose unique style makes me want to read more. I began reading this upon the belief that I would read about the first fictional to detective who got it wrong and arrested the wrong person but I don’t believe I did. Although, Alleyn does arrest someone before the actual murderer, I didn’t see that as a police officer making a mistake. I thought firstly that he had no choice but to arrest him as he had told many that he was going to and had an image to uphold however it’s not often that a detective, who are often quite dominate which Alleyn does demonstrate, is controlled by other’s expectations. After finishing the novel I think that it could’ve been a ploy to get the murderer to let down his guard and enable Alleyn to capture them. But thinking about it more, the murderer doesn’t seem to change at all even when he is arrested so ...
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