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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 writer. As a crime writer during the " Golden Age of Detective Fiction ", Marsh is known as one of the "Queens of Crime" , along with Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , and Margery Allingham .
While Marsh recovered, she and Jellett collaborated on a murder mystery set in a nursing home. [1]: 264 Jellett provided all of the precise medical details in the novel. Marsh and Jellett originally titled the book Death Follows a Surgeon. [3] The pair would later collaborate on a musical called There She Goes. [2]: 73
A Man Lay Dead was the first novel Marsh had written, although she had written some plays and short stories. In years to come she would "cringe at the thought of her first novel with its barely plausible story line, shallow characterization and confined setting, but it was her entrée to crime fiction writing" and exemplifies the cozy detective novel form, set in a single main setting (the ...
Still on my “mystery novel” kick, I’ve been reading some “new” writers. “New” to me, at least: Ngaio Marsh, a writer from New Zealand who died in 1982, and Ross Macdonald, an ...
Roderick Alleyn (pronounced "Allen") is a fictional character who first appeared in 1934. [1] He is the policeman hero of the 32 detective novels of Ngaio Marsh.Marsh and her gentleman detective belong firmly in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, although the last Alleyn novel, Light Thickens, was published in 1982.
Enter a Murderer is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh.This is her second novel to feature Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1935.The novel is the first of the theatrical novels for which Marsh was to become famous, taking its title from a line of stage direction in Macbeth.
BBC One broadcast an adaptation of the novel on 9 May 1993 as part of the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries. The episode was directed by Michael Winterbottom and starred Patrick Malahide as Roderick Alleyn. The main deviation from Marsh in Alfred Shaughnessy's script was the suggestion of a homosexual relationship between two male characters. [7]
Died in the Wool is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1945. [1] The novel is set in New Zealand, and death on a sheep farm.