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    Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh DBE (/ˈnaɪoʊ/ NY-oh; 23 April 1895 – 18 February 1982) was a New Zealand writer. As a crime writer during the "Golden Age of Detective...
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  • publisher Ngaio Beausoleil, New Zealand animal welfare researcher Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982), author and theatre director Ngaio Marsh Awards Ngaio Marsh House...
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    The Ngaio Marsh Awards (formerly Ngaio Marsh Award), popularly called the Ngaios, are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand to recognise excellence...
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    Ngaio Marsh House, the home of Dame Ngaio Marsh for most her life, is a heritage property in Valley Road in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere. It serves...
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  • The Ngaio Marsh Theatre is a theatre at the University of Canterbury Students' Association in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Ngaio Marsh theatre was named...
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  • fiction by New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh and Henry Jellett. It is the only book Marsh co-authored.: 264  Ngaio Marsh suffered from cancer which she...
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  • A Man Lay Dead is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1934. The plot concerns...
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    co-wrote with Eileen Horne, was shortlisted for Best Nonfiction at the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards. She is the mother of two boys. She is a Christian and enjoys...
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    series Brass. Ewing's novel The Petticoat Men was shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award in 2015. Ewing was born in Carterton, New Zealand. Her father's...
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  • Surfeit of Lampreys is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the tenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1941. The novel...
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  • Final Curtain is a 1947 crime novel by the New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh, the fourteenth in her series of mysteries featuring Scotland Yard detective...
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  • Tied Up in Tinsel is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-seventh novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1972. The...
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    Book Awards for her first novel, Auē and Best Crime Novel at the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Awards. Manawatu was born Becky Wixon in June 1982 in Nelson, New Zealand...
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  • Inspector Roderick Alleyn in the Ngaio Marsh Theatre; four adaptations of the crime and mystery novels of Ngaio Marsh with New Zealand settings, in a production...
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  • Artists in Crime is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the sixth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1938. The plot concerns...
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  • phrase, "He's the real Mackay". In 1935, New Zealand mystery writer Ngaio Marsh presented a character in Enter a Murderer who muses whether gun cartridges...
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    Jacqueline Bublitz (born 1978) is a New Zealand author. She won two Ngaio Marsh Awards in 2022 for her debut crime novel Before You Knew My Name. She...
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  • Light Thickens is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirty-second, and final, novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1982...
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  • broadcast on BBC1, which was adapted from nine of the novels by Dame Ngaio Marsh, featuring the character Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. The pilot episode...
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    " Authors Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh have been collectively called the Queens of Crime. Certain conventions...
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  • Off with His Head is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the nineteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn. It was first published in the USA by Little...
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  • Swing, Brother, Swing is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the fifteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1949 in the...
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  • Dead Water is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twenty-third novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1964. The plot concerns...
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  • Grave Mistake is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirtieth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1978. The plot concerns...
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  • Death at the Bar is a crime novel by Ngaio Marsh, the ninth to feature her series detective Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard...
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  • several people Mitchell Marsh (born 1991), Australian cricketer Narcissus Marsh (1638–1713), English clergyman Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982), New Zealand mystery...
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  • Enter a Murderer is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh. This is her second novel to feature Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in...
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  • Colour Scheme is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twelfth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1943 by Collins Crime...
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  • Zealand. His work has received critical acclaim, been shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award, and his fourth novel, American Blood, has been optioned for film...
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    Europe. His work has been translated into 18 languages. He has won the Ngaio Marsh Award for best crime novel in New Zealand three times, he won the Saint-Maur...
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