Ngaio Marsh

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born

April 23, 1895 in Christchurch, New Zealand

died

February 18, 1982

gender

female

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Dame Ngaio Marsh, born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900, but she was born in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.

Of all the "Great Ladies" 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, introdu...more

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Books by Ngaio Marsh

Average rating: 3.80 · 16,431 ratings · 1,017 reviews · 70 distinct works

	A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn #1) 3.84 avg rating — 1,715 ratings — published 1934 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Artists in Crime 3.98 avg rating — 1,194 ratings — published 1938 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Death In A White Tie 4.00 avg rating — 1,061 ratings — published 1938 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Death of a Peer 4.01 avg rating — 923 ratings — published 1940 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Enter A Murderer 3.66 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 1935 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Clutch Of Constables 3.95 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Scales Of Justice 3.84 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 1956 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Final Curtain 3.86 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 1947 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Death And The Dancing Footman 3.81 avg rating — 502 ratings — published 1941 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Overture To Death 3.74 avg rating — 504 ratings — published 1939 — 24 editions	My rating:

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Series by Ngaio Marsh

Roderick Alleyn (32 books)
by Ngaio Marsh

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Quotes by Ngaio Marsh

“We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.”
― Ngaio Marsh

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“Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death On The Air

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“You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death On The Air

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