Word: alleyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dalgleish joins a long line of detective heroes, from Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn. Like his predecessors, he is an educated investigator and a deeply sensitive individual. Unlike earlier detectives, he is a professional policeman, a published poet, and he harbors a secret tragedy--early in his career, his wife died in childbirth. He avoids romance and even short-term affairs...
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