- Marcel Berlins Jul 26, 2006
The golden age of whodunnits before the second world war certainly had more memorable women writers - Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh. Today the elite is more evenly spread. (Guardian Unlimited)
The future belongs to a big and caring supermarket Jul 27, 2005
Following up on my enthusiasm for the superior Thirties crime writer Ngaio Marsh, a number of you championed Margery Allingham, creator of the classic Mayfair dilettante detective Albert Campion, and there was a heartening level of support for the old-school charms of clubland authors such as Sapper and Dornford Yates. Given my desire to promote undervalued writers whose style, and terms of reference, were quintessentially English I was also pleased by the frequency with which two names... (TimesOnline)
America’s Conscience Jun 7, 2005
Not just mysteries Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, Erle Stanley Gardner but an occasional international thriller, like Eric Ambler s A Coffin for Dimitrios and Graham Greene s The Third Man. The idea of reading a non-genre novel, with its stodgy domestic realism and sissy fuss over female heartbreak, repelled me, but I could lose myself all morning and afternoon in narratives of skulduggery, detection, and eventual triumphant justice. (New Yorker)
Prize Crossword Jan 14, 2005
3 Roderick , detective created by Dame Ngaio Marsh (6). 4 The capital of Libya (7). (Lima Post, Peru)
