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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 .
According to her biographer Margaret Lewis, Marsh "had never spent Christmas in an ordinary English household, and her view of the practical side of preparing traditional dishes was very hazy"; she did not realise "that Christmas puddings are made weeks before the event, and sit maturing darkly in their bowls ready for lengthy boiling on 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 ...
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
But even so, it is much better than the average run of mystery tales. Miss Marsh may not have completely found herself, but she already possessed the story-telling talent to an unusual degree." Despite this praise, the review concluded, "Experienced detective story readers will not have a great deal of difficulty in spotting the murderer."
When in Rome is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-sixth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1970. [1] [2]The novel takes place in Rome, and concerns a number of murders among a group of tourists visiting the city; much of the action takes place in the "Basilica di San Tommaso".
Marsh's first biographer, Margaret Lewis [3] suggests that, once again, the author's depiction of Quintern drew on her visits to the Rhodes family, her lifelong friends, in the Kentish village of Birling, quoting Marsh's admission that "Birling has a strong tendency to pop up when least expected" and a letter in which Marsh regrets that "however much I try to discipline myself as to plot and ...
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.