The magazine Newsweek described her novels as 'the best whodunits ever written'. Marsh was also an artist, playwright, actor and director.
Ngaio Marsh
Personal details
Full Name:
Ngaio Marsh
Lifetime:
23 Apr 1895 – 18 Feb 1982
Biography
Events In History
18 February 1982
Ngaio Marsh, one of the 'Queens of Crime' in the 1920s and 1930s, died just weeks after submitting her 32nd detective novel, Light thickens, to her publishers. She was also an artist, playwright, actor and director.
Main image: Portrait of Ngaio Marsh
Standing portrait of dramatist and crime writer Ngaio Marsh taken c1935.
