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Dame Ngaio Marsh , born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand crime writer and theatre director. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.

Internationally Marsh is known primarily for her creation Inspector Roderick Alleyn, a gentleman detective who works for the Metropolitan Police . She is known as one of the "Queens of Crime" with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham.

✵ 23. April 1895 – 18. February 1982
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Ngaio Marsh Quotes

“Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.”

Ngaio Marsh

Source: Death on the Air and Other Stories

Reading , Success

“We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.”

Ngaio Marsh

Source: Ngaio Marsh: A Life

Way , Waiting

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