New Zealand crime writer and theatre director (1895–1982)
Dame
Ngaio Marsh
DBE
Ngaio Marsh, Sydney, 14 January 1949
Born
Edith Ngaio Marsh (1895-04-23)23 April 1895 Christchurch, New Zealand
Died
18 February 1982(1982-02-18) (aged 86) Christchurch, New Zealand
Occupation
Writer, theatre director
Language
English
Education
St Margaret's College, Christchurch
Alma mater
University of Canterbury
Genre
Crime fiction
Literary movement
Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Relatives
Robert Speight (uncle)
Dame Edith Ngaio MarshDBE (/ˈnaɪoʊ/;[1] 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand mystery writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.[2]
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 Metropolitan Police (London).
The Ngaio Marsh Award is awarded annually for the best New Zealand mystery, crime and thriller fiction writing.[2]
^Wells, John C. (1982). Accents of English. Vol. 3: Beyond the British Isles (pp. i–xx, 467–674). Cambridge University Press. p. 610. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511611766. ISBN 0-52128541-0.
^ abNyren, Neil (14 November 2018). "Ngaio Marsh: A Crime Reader's Guide to the Classics: Diving into the Life and Work of New Zealand's Queen of Crime". CrimeReads. CrimeReads.com. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
Dame Edith NgaioMarsh DBE (/ˈnaɪoʊ/; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand mystery writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame...
The NgaioMarsh Awards (formerly NgaioMarsh Award), popularly called the Ngaios, are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand to recognise excellence...
The NgaioMarsh Theatre is a theatre at the University of Canterbury Students' Association in Christchurch, New Zealand. The NgaioMarsh theatre was named...
NgaioMarsh House is an historic home in Valley Road in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere. It was the home of writer NgaioMarsh for most of her life...
A Man Lay Dead is a detective novel by NgaioMarsh; it is the first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1934. The plot concerns...
Surfeit of Lampreys is a detective novel by NgaioMarsh; it is the tenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1941. The novel...
Guthrie directed the play at the Westminster Theatre in London 1948: NgaioMarsh directed the play with the Canterbury Student Players at the Little Theatre...
Colour Scheme is a detective novel by NgaioMarsh; it is the twelfth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1943 by Collins Crime...
series Brass. Ewing's novel The Petticoat Men was shortlisted for the NgaioMarsh Award in 2015. Ewing was born in Carterton, New Zealand. Her father's...
broadcast on BBC1, which was adapted from nine of the novels by Dame NgaioMarsh, featuring the character Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. The pilot episode...
phrase, "He's the real Mackay". In 1935, New Zealand mystery writer NgaioMarsh presented a character in Enter a Murderer who muses whether gun cartridges...
Europe. His work has been translated into 18 languages. He has won the NgaioMarsh Award for best crime novel in New Zealand three times, he won the Saint-Maur...
Grave Mistake is a detective novel by NgaioMarsh; it is the thirtieth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1978. The plot concerns...
Off with His Head is a detective novel by NgaioMarsh; it is the nineteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn. It was first published in the USA by Little...
" Authors Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and NgaioMarsh have been collectively called the Queens of Crime. Certain conventions...
Death at the Bar is a crime novel by NgaioMarsh, the ninth to feature her series detective Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard...
Book Awards for her first novel, Auē and Best Crime Novel at the 2020 NgaioMarsh Awards. Manawatu was born Becky Wixon in June 1982 in Nelson, New Zealand...
Overture to Death is a detective novel by NgaioMarsh; it is the eighth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1939. The plot concerns...
Spinsters in Jeopardy is a detective novel by NgaioMarsh; it is the seventeenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1953. The...
NgaioMarsh Award, 2012 Longlisted, Luther: The Calling, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2012 Finalist, Captured, NgaioMarsh Award...
Death and the Dancing Footman is a detective novel by NgaioMarsh, the eleventh of her Roderick Alleyn books and was first published in 1941 in the US...
Light Thickens is a detective novel by NgaioMarsh; it is the thirty-second, and final, novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1982...
Global Information