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Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh DBE (/ ˈ n aɪ oʊ /; 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.
The mystery deepens as Alleyn untangles the web of artistic intrigue and personal vendettas to find the killer. Book Series In Order » Authors » Ngaio Marsh. 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.
Apr 19, 2024 · 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.
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.
Roderick Alleyn Series. 33 primary works • 48 total works. aka: Inspector Alleyn series. English detective series, written from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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.
Ngaio Marsh has 179 books on Goodreads with 246801 ratings. Ngaio Marsh’s most popular book is A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1).
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).
Ngaio Marsh spent most of her life in Christchurch, despite long periods in England. A prolific and hugely successful writer of crime fiction; paperbacks, hardbacks and radio serials of her work amounted to a small industry. Yet Marsh was also a major figure in New Zealand theatre.
