Ngaio Marsh

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

George Baker obituary 2011

Dame Ngaio Marsh - but who given the chance to go head to head on a level playing field, would upset many of the favoured countries with bigger 'star names'.

The Group of Death Peter Rozovsky 2010

Ms. Sayres, along with Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth, among others, were popular during the so-called Golden Age of Detective Fiction 1920s and '30s, when the genre was rigidly circumscribed by rules set forth by a crime writer, Ronald Knox: no exotic poisons or appliances, no more than one secret room or passage, and "no Chinaman must figure in the story."

On the Case for Good Mystery Writers Cynthia Crossen 2010

Unlike the Ngaio Marsh adaptations which appalled me.

The Nine Tailors - Peter Wimsey on tv Victoria Janssen 2009

Ngaio Marsh, for example, whose stories never quite work for me, has the first two, but not the third.

Detective Stories Theodora Goss 2009

Agatha Christie was the first author so honoured, with Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Carter Dickson and Simeon following.

Archive 2009-12-01 Steve 2009

Ngaio Marsh, for example, whose stories never quite work for me, has the first two, but not the third.

Archive 2009-01-01 Theodora Goss 2009

Agatha Christie was the first author so honoured, with Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Carter Dickson and Simeon following.

Christie at Christmas part 2: Penguin Books Steve 2009

I recommend that eventually you move to some of the other classic British mystery writers – Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and my favorite, Margery Allingham.

Bits and Bobs (Vol. 12): Six essential British whodunits | EW.com 2008

Authors are described as a cross between Madame de Staëland and Arthur Conan Doyle, or are said to write like Charlotte Brontë on acid, or have out-Dostoyevskied Dostoyevsky and checkmated Euripides, when they are more of a cross between Candace Bushnell and Ngaio Marsh, or write like Willa Cather on Robitussin-DM, or have been narrowly out-Mavis Gallanted by Mavis Gallant, and were lucky to play Edna Ferber to a draw.

Joe Queenan's Sweet Talk scottedelman 2008