Jeremy Clyde stars as Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn in two BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast dramatisations.

Opening Night

Tensions are running high on the first night of a new play. When the leading actor is found gassed in his dressing room, it looks like suicide. It soon transpires, however, that he was widely detested ~ and almost everyone in the theatre had a possible motive for his murder. Its down to Inspector Alleyn to discover who acted upon their grudge...

When in Rome

Alleyn is in Rome, travelling incognito on the trail of an international drugs racket. His path crosses the members of Sebastian Mailer's tour group, ail of whom seem strangely unperturbed that their guide has disappeared in the depths of a Roman basilica. Then a body is found in an Etruscan sarcophagus - and Alleyn is very much concerned.

Michael Cochrane, David Swift and Nick Waring are amongst the cast in these two atmospheric adaptations of novels by Ngaio Marsh.