Alison Downing is a fictional character portrayed by Nadine Marshall in the TV series New Tricks.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled The Russian Cousin (season 12), they were 42 years old.
They appear in 1 episodes out of a total of 105 aired
Episodes1
The Russian Cousin
episode S12.E7 september 2015In 2011 private investigator Dave Hooper was murdered in his office, assumedly the victim of a botched robbery but now his secret notebook, written in shorthand, has come to light though ex-girlfriend Carmen Cresswell could not decipher it. Alison Downing hired Dave to pursue a thieving boyfriend Jason Sharp as did cancer victim Barry Warnock following the burglary of a rare stamp known as the Russian Cousin and worth £40,000. Consequently the progress of the stamp holds the key to the identity of Dave's killer.