Crime Story Writers

1. Ngaio Marsh
- Writer
Lorena Canteli and Claudia Sánchez

2.  Edith Ngaio Marsh:
She is born on 23 of
April 1895 in
Christchurch, New
Zealand. She is die on
18 February 1982.
 She is writer, theatre
director.

3. Biography
• Marsh was born in the city of
Christchurch, where she also
died.
• She was the only child of Rose
and bank clerk Henry Marsh.
• Ngaio Marsh was educated at St
Margaret's College in
Christchurch.
• She studied painting at the
Canterbury College School of Art
before joining the Allan Wilkie
company as an actress and
touring New Zealand.

4. Personal Life
• She never married
or had children.
• Marsh also wore
trousers and had a
deep voice, but
denied flatly that
she was a lesbian
throughout her
life.

5. Career
• Internationally she is best known for her 32
detective novels published between 1934 and
1982.
• With Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham
and Agatha Christie, she has been classed as
one of the four original "Queens of Crime“
female writers who dominated the crime
fiction genre in the Golden Age of the 1920
and 1930.

6. Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham
and Agatha Christie

7. Novels
• Detective novels:
1.A Man Lay Dead (1934)
2.Enter a Murderer (1935)
3.The Nursing Home Murder (1935)
4.Death in Ecstasy (1936)
5.Vintage Murder (1937)
6.Artists in Crime (1938)
7.Death in a White Tie (1938)
8.Overture to Death (1939)
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