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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 · 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.”. They were Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh—though, for my money, Marsh was the best of them.
- Neil Nyren
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Marsh's first novel, A MAN LAY DEAD (1934), which she wrote in London in 1931-32, introduced the detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn: a combination of Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and a realistically depicted police official at work.
A collection of 33 books featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a detective series by New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh. Browse the titles, ratings, reviews, and editions of the classic English crime novels.
