Ngaio Marsh
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Ngaio Marsh: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
By Bruce Harding... tantrums, and other abuse. Templeton dispatches her by placing a highly toxic insect killer in her atomizer. He later dies of a heart attack. Bennington,. Clark. (“Ben”). In Night at the Vulcan (1951), Clark Bennington is ...
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Ngaio Marsh: The Woman and Her Work
By Beverly Jean RahnIn 1934, Ngaio Marsh's first novel, A Man Lay Dead, was published to critical acclaim. For the next fifty years, Marsh wrote more than 30 English detective novels, while simultaneously...
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Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime
By Joanne DraytonOne of the celebrated 1930s and 40s "Queens of Crime' Ngaio Marsh was probably our first million copy author. Her tightly written, stylish whodunits were perennial favorites, rating alongside Agatha...
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Ngaio Marsh: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
By Bruce HardingThis principle is vividly exemplified in Death and the Dancing Footman (1941), where the isolation and enforced combination ... The key Marsh novels that are set in small cozy villages are A Man Lay Dead(1934), Overture to Death (1939), ...
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Ngaio Marsh
By Kathryne Slate McDormanNgaio Marsh