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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 ...
[4] The Illustrated London News thought it a return to form, "Not that Dead Water is a patch on her earlier books featuring Handsome Alleyn: still, this story of murder in the 'healing' pool of a Cornish parody of Lourdes embodies a good mystery, and one of those tough, splendid old women in which Miss Marsh specialises with such skill."
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
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 ...
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.
Grotesquerie’s Mystery Deepens in Answer-Packed Episodes 8 and 9, Ending With Another Killer Twist. Andy Swift. October 24, 2024 at 12:54 AM.