Ngaio Marsh
Dame Ngaio Marsh was a New Zealand crime writer, one of the 'Queens of Crime' alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham, best known for her 32 detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn. Born in Christchurch, she pursued interests in theater, directing acclaimed Shakespearean productions, and wrote her first novel A Man Lay Dead in 1934 while in London. She was knighted as a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1966 for her services to theatre and literature, and never married.
Crime
Mystery
Detective
Grave Mistake
When in Rome: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #26
Scales of Justice: A Roderick Alleyn Mystery, Library Edition
Last Ditch
Final Curtain (Roderick Alleyn Mysteries)(Library Edition)
Swing, Brother, Swing: Roderick Alleyn #15
Swing, Brother, Swing: Roderick Alleyn #15
Death of a Fool: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #19
Death at the Bar: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #9
Dead Water: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #23
Artists in Crime: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #6
Singing in the Shrouds
Death in Ecstasy
A Grave Mistake (Roderick Alleyn Book 30)
Death at the Bar (Inspectr Roderick Alleyn)
Killer Dolphin: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #24
Death and the Dancing Footman (Inspectr Roderick Alleyn)
Colour Scheme: Roderick Alleyn #12
Colour Scheme (Inspectr Roderick Alleyn)
A Man Lay Dead: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #1 (Roderick Alleyn series)
Final Curtain (Inspectr Roderick Alleyn)
Surfeit of Lampreys: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #10 (Roderick Alleyn series)
Enter a Murderer: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #2 (Roderick Alleyn series)
Artists in Crime: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #6 (Roderick Alleyn series)