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  • Just about to begin the chapter on Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and two other women authors of that era.

    Date Night : Bev Vincent 2010

  • But I also started reading Nero Wolfe when I was 8, and then binged out on Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh and Ellery Queen.

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » No Politics Thread 2010

  • You know what, it was bloody strange reading the bits in the Ngaio.

    Events And Suchlike karenhealey 2010

  • In 1977, Baker played Ngaio Marsh's detective, Roderick Alleyn, in a New Zealand adaptation of four of the novels.

    George Baker obituary 2011

  • Ngaio Marsh books – lot of 3 – Photo Finish & … ..

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6371 2009

  • This bit is about the Ngaio Marsh Theatre, which is an important setting in the book, and one of my most favourite places in the whole world.

    More background updates! karenhealey 2010

  • You might enjoy his excellent feature on an old favourite of mine, Ngaio Marsh.

    PETRONA Maxine 2009

  • You might enjoy his excellent feature on an old favourite of mine, Ngaio Marsh.

    Weblogs Maxine 2009

  • Men written by women tend to be very sensitive, writes Mr Taylor, quoting Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, Dorothy Sayers and Patricia Highsmith (he could equally well have given contemporary examples such as Elizabeth George, Ruth Rendell, Anne Cleeves, Karin Fossum), but men writing about women tend to focus on the external appearance.

    Writing Maxine 2009

  • Four "queens of crime" dominated the Golden Age of the mystery novel, the years just before and after World War II: Agatha Christie and her fiendish way with plots; Dorothy Sayers with her cerebral Lord Peter Wimsey novels; New Zealander Ngaio Marsh embellishing the detective novel with flourishes from the theatrical and artistic worlds; and Margery Allingham, the most energetic of the four and the most resistant to classification.

    A Queen of Mystery Sarah Weinman 2011

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