About Ngaio Marsh
Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh ( NY-oh; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand writer. As a crime writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Marsh is known as one of the "Queens of Crime", along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham. She is known primarily for her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the London Metropolitan Police, and who first appeared in her novel A Man Lay Dead (1934). The Ngaio Marsh Awards are awarded annually for the best New Zealand mystery, crime and thriller fiction writing. Ngaio Marsh was educated at St Margaret's College in Christchurch, where she was one of the first pupils when the school was founded.
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