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Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh DBE (/ ˈ n aɪ oʊ / NY-oh; [1] 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.
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.
Hugely talented, charming and enigmatic, Ngaio Marsh is one of New Zealand’s best-known literary figures, and was for a time our most famous export across the globe.
Nov 14, 2018 · Her home in Christchurch is preserved as a museum. In 1975, the Mystery Writers of America gave her the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement. The Ngaio Marsh Award is given out every year for the best in New Zealand crime fiction. And on April 23, 2015, she was honored with—a Google Doodle.
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.
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).
English detective series, written from the 1930s to the 1980s. Book 1. A Man Lay Dead. by Ngaio Marsh. 3.80 · 15,659 Ratings · 1,109 Reviews · published 1934 · 92 editions. At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, fiv… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. Enter a Murderer. by Ngaio Marsh.
Ngaio Marsh. Newsweek described her novels as 'the best whodunits ever written'. Ngaio Marsh was also an artist, playwright, actor and director. The New York Times called her New Zealand's best-known literary figure. Marsh was regarded as one of ‘Queens of Crime’ in the 1920s and 1930s.
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.
