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Ngaio Marsh


Born
in Christchurch, New Zealand
April 23, 1895

Died
February 18, 1982

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


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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Average rating: 3.9 · 147,321 ratings · 10,390 reviews · 203 distinct works â€� Similar authors
A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Al...
3.80 avg rating — 16,295 ratings — published 1934 — 100 editions
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Death in a White Tie (Roder...
4.05 avg rating — 11,323 ratings — published 1938 — 56 editions
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Artists in Crime (Roderick ...
4.02 avg rating — 9,591 ratings — published 1938 — 7 editions
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Death of a Peer (Roderick A...
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Enter a Murderer (Roderick ...
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Clutch of Constables (Roder...
4.14 avg rating — 4,834 ratings — published 1968 — 71 editions
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Final Curtain (Roderick All...
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Overture to Death (Roderick...
3.96 avg rating — 4,672 ratings — published 1939 — 23 editions
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Scales of Justice (Roderick...
3.99 avg rating — 4,390 ratings — published 1955 — 83 editions
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Death in Ecstasy (Roderick ...
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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 and Other Stories
tags: imitation, models, reading, style, writing
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“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, Ngaio Marsh: A Life
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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 and Other Stories
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