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2 unusual facts about Ngaio Marsh


Final Curtain

Final Curtain is a 1947 novel by Ngaio Marsh, which was adapted for television in 1993 as part of the Inspector Alleyn Mysteries.

Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder

It was said that he owned more than 1,000 detective books in his room, including those written by Ngaio Marsh.


Collins Crime Club

From 1939, the Crime Club also issued all the remaining works of Ngaio Marsh to be published (starting with Overture to Death) as well as many of the volumes of such 'Golden Age of Detective Fiction' writers such as John Rhode and Freeman Wills Crofts.

South Ronaldsay child abuse scandal

The objects seized during the raids were later returned; they included a videotape of the TV show Blackadder, a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh, and a model aeroplane made by one of the children from two pieces of wood, which was identified by social workers as a "wooden cross".


see also

Scales of Justice

Scales of Justice (novel), a novel by New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh featuring her character Inspector Roderick Alleyn