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Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh DBE (/ ˈ n aɪ oʊ / NY-oh; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand mystery writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.
Complete order of Ngaio Marsh books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Crime Novelist. One of the original ‘Queens of Crime’ who dominated crime fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, alongside Agatha Christie. Wrote 32 internationally-acclaimed novels featuring the quintessential upper class English detective – the handsome and melancholic Inspector Roderick Alleyn.
Nov 14, 2018 · Diving Into the Life and Work of New Zealand's Queen of Crime. November 14, 2018 By Neil Nyren. In the Golden Age of British crime fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, the names of four women were so dominant that they became known as the “Queens of Crime.”
Ngaio Marsh (born April 23, 1895, Christchurch, New Zealand—died February 18, 1982, Christchurch) was a New Zealand author known especially for her many detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard and, in later novels, his wife, Troy.
Mar 15, 2024 · Ngaio Marsh, also known by her full name Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a renowned mystery author from New Zealand. She’s most famous for her series of thirty-two detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a sophisticated detective employed by the Metropolitan Police in London.
Mar 7, 2022 · Christchurch-born novelist Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh, DBE (1895–1982) was one of the original four “Queens of Crime” along with Agatha Christie (1890–1976), Margery Allingham (1904–1966) and Dorothy L Sayers (1893–1957).
Roderick Alleyn Series. 33 primary works • 48 total works. aka: Inspector Alleyn series. English detective series, written from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Over a fifty-year span, from 1932 to 1982, Marsh wrote thirty-two classic English detective novels, which gained international acclaim. She did not always see herself as a writer, but first planned a career as a painter. Marsh's first novel, A MAN LAY DEAD (1934), which she wrote in London in 1931-32, introdu.
Feb 19, 1982 · Dame Ngaio Marsh, whose writing style and vivid characters and settings made her a mystery novelist of world renown, died yesterday at her home in Christchurch, New Zealand. She was 82 years old.
