Marsh Ngaio. Collected Short Fiction

Essays and short stories by Ngaio Marsh, edited and with introduction by Douglas G. Greene:
"Literate. Polished. Witty. Urbane." These words describe the traditional English mystery and, above all, the novels of Dame Ngaio Marsh (1899-1982). Paradoxically, Marsh was born and reared far from England and had little interest in detective fiction as a form. These are not the sort of books I buy to read, she said of the works of other mystery novelists. Her real interests were painting and the theater. But perhaps all of this is not so surprising: she brought to her writing the clearsightedness of an outsider — an outsider who could view a scene as a painter and plot with the dramatic sense of a playwright. etc
Essays
- Roderick Alleyn
- Portrait of Troy
The Short Cases Of Roderick Alleyn
- Death on the Air
- Chapter and Verse: The Little Copplestone Mystery
Other Stories
- The Hand In The Sand
- The Cupid Mirror
- A Fool About Money
- Morepork
A Telescript
- Evil Liver
- The Case with Five Solutions