Marsh

Ngaio Marsh, also known as Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a New Zealand author renowned for her 32 detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard.[1][4] One of the 'Queens of Crime' alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Margery Allingham, she also worked as a theatre director, painter, and journalist.[3][5] She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1966 for her services to literature and theatre.[1][4]