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  <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Of all the &quot;Great Ladies&quot; of the English mystery's golden age, including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh alone survived to publish in the 1980s. 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, introduced the detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn: a combination of Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and a realistically depicted police official at work. Throughout the 1930s Marsh painted occasionally, wrote plays for local repertory societies in New Zealand, and published detective novels. In 1937 Marsh went to England for a period. Before going back to her home country, she spent six months travelling about Europe. 


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  <title><![CDATA[Artists in Crime]]></title>
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  <published>1938</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Man Lay Dead]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.52</average_rating>
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  <published>1970</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Enter A Murderer]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <published>1935</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Death and the Dancing Footman]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <published>1968</published>  
  
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        <book id="280991">
  <title><![CDATA[Death in a White Tie]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.65</average_rating>
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  <published>1977</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Death of a Peer]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <published>1980</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Final Curtain]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.79</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>117</ratings_count>
  <published>1977</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Overture to Death]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.58</average_rating>
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  <published>1962</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Clutch of Constables]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.90</average_rating>
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  <published>1970</published>  
  
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        <book id="280846">
  <title><![CDATA[Vintage Murder]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ngaio Marsh]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.58</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>100</ratings_count>
  <published>1937</published>  
  
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