Ngaio Marsh
BIOGRAPHY (via Wikipedia; NB: We have found this to link to the wrong person, occasionally. It will be obvious when this has happened.)
Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh ( NY-oh; 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. She is known primarily for her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the London Metropolitan Police, and who first appeared in her novel A Man Lay Dead (1934).
The Ngaio Marsh Awards are awarded annually for the best New Zealand mystery, crime and thriller fiction writing.
Books & Publications
- Author: Vintage Murder — 1955 edition
- Author: Death at the Bar — 1963 edition
- Author: Overture to Death — 1955 edition
- Author: Surfeit of Lampreys — 1959 edition
- Author: Death and the Dancing Footman — 1954 edition
- Author: Colour Scheme — 1944 edition
- Author: Final Curtain — 1958 edition
- Author: Swing, Brother, Seing — 1964 edition
- Author: Scales of Justice — 1956 edition
- Author: Scales of Justice — 1956 edition
- Author: Off With His Head — 1973 edition
- Author: False Scent — 1961 edition
- Author: Hand In Glove — 1974 edition
- Author: Dead Water — 1966 edition
- Author: Death at the Dolphin — 1986 edition
- Author: Tied Up In Tinsel — 1973 edition
- Author: Inspector Alleyn Mysteries Volume 1 — 2009 edition
- Author: Inspector Alleyn Mysteries Volume 2 — 2009 edition
- Author: Inspector Alleyn Mysteries Volume 3 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 1 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 10 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 11 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 2 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 3 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 4 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 5 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 6 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 7 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 8 — 2009 edition
- Author: The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 9 — 2009 edition
Contributions in order of title
- A Fool About Money — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 4
- A Man Lay Dead — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 1
- Artists in Crime — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 2
- Black as He's Painted — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 10
- Black Beeach and Honeydew — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 11
- Chapter and Verse — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 9
- Chapter and Verse — in Ellery Queen's Murdercade
- Clutch of Constables — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 9
- Colour Scheme — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 4
- Dead Water — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 8
- Death & the Dancing Footman — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 4
- Death at the Bar — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 3
- Death at the Dolphin — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 8
- Death In A White Tie — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 3
- Death in Ecstasy — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 2
- Death on the Air — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 2
- Death on the Air — in The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories
- Death on the Air — in Country House Murders
- Died in the Wool — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 5
- Enter a Murderer — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 1
- Evil Liver — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 10
- False Scent — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 7
- Final Curtain — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 5
- Grave Mistake — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 10
- Hand in Glove — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 8
- I Can Find My Way Out — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 5
- I Can Find My Way Out — in The Omnibus of Modern Crime Stories
- Introduction: Portrait of Troy — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 2
- Introduction: Roderick Alleyn — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 1
- Last Ditch — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 10
- Light Thickens — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 11
- Moonshine — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 1
- Morepork — in Verdict of Thirteen
- Morepork — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 11
- My Poor Boy — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 7
- Off With His Head — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 7
- Opening Night — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 6
- Overture to Death — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 3
- Photo-Finish — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 11
- Scales of Justice — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 6
- Singing in the Shrouds — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 7
- Spinsters in Jeopardy — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 6
- Surfeit of Lampreys — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 4
- Swing, Brother, Swing — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 5
- The Cupid Mirror — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 8
- The Figure Quoted — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 3
- The Hand in the Sand — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 6
- The Nursing Home Murder — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 1
- Tied up in Tinsel — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 9
- Vintage Murder — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 2
- When in Rome — in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 9