Isn't it? I kind of love it. I read A Man Lay Dead and assumed that Nigel was one more one-book viewpoint character, so I was very surprised to hear he recurred as a POV character in the next few!
Admittedly, the previous Inspector Alleyn books I've read have been a handful picked at random off my parents' bookshelves, so it's possible that he does recur more and I just managed to miss those ones. But he wasn't even mentioned, so I'd guess Marsh got bored with him.
Oof about the occasional punches, though. Thaaaat is good to know. And another thing I hadn't encountered in my random handful, although Night at the Vulcan (aka Opening Night, per Wikipedia) has some rather dated gender/romantic politics going on with some of the suspects.
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Isn't it? I kind of love it. I read A Man Lay Dead and assumed that Nigel was one more one-book viewpoint character, so I was very surprised to hear he recurred as a POV character in the next few!
Admittedly, the previous Inspector Alleyn books I've read have been a handful picked at random off my parents' bookshelves, so it's possible that he does recur more and I just managed to miss those ones. But he wasn't even mentioned, so I'd guess Marsh got bored with him.
Oof about the occasional punches, though. Thaaaat is good to know. And another thing I hadn't encountered in my random handful, although Night at the Vulcan (aka Opening Night, per Wikipedia) has some rather dated gender/romantic politics going on with some of the suspects.